The Arts in Contemporary Healing

IRMA DOSAMANTES-BEAUDRY is Professor in the World Arts and Cultures Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She conducts Intensive Dance/Movement Therapy workshops internationally, and is Editor-in-Chief of the international Arts in Psychotherapy Journal.

Introduction
Transitions and the Regression-Reintegration Process
The Intimate Social Sphere and the Origins of Potential Space Illusory Experience, Creativity and Self-Generativity
The Intimate Sphere: Site of Personal Artistic Expression and Self-Regeneration
The Public Social Sphere: Site of Artistic Cultural Expression and Communal Healing
The Creation of Communities through Group Artmaking
Recapitulation and Conclusions
Author Index
Subject Index