Preface. 1. Introduction: Why Fiber is Good for Your Psyche. 2. Threads of Time: Women and Textile-making. 3. She's Come Unraveled: Mental Well-being in Girls and Women. 4. Uncovering the Truth: Assessing Where to Start. 5. Interwoven Lives: Cross-cultural Applications of Textile Art Therapy. 6. Theoretical Underpinnings of Textile Art Therapy. 7. Pulling in the Warp Threads You Will Weave With: Issues, Metaphors, and Project Suggestions. 8. Unveiling the Textile Techniques. 9. Spin the Web: Circles of Women. 10. Psychologically Minded Female Textile Artists: Incredible Examples. Appendix: Textile Survey. References. Subject Index. Author Index.
1. Introduction.; 2. Women and Textiles.; 3.Mental Well-being in Women.; 4. The Psychology of Textile Art Therapy.; 5. Assessment:; 6. Guided Imagery and Expressive Writing.; 7. Issues, Metaphors, and Projects.; 8. Cross-Cultural Applications.; 9. Group Applications.; 10. Interviews with Women Textile Artists.
A complete guide to using textiles in therapy with female clients
Ann Futterman Collier is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with many years experience of working with textile arts and therapy. She is an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in abnormal psychology, counseling techniques, health psychology, and art therapy theory; she also conducts research on how art-making can be used to promote well-being and mood repair. Ann resides in Flagstaff, Arizona.
This is a delightful book, written with love, wisdom and
enthusiasm. It would probably appeal most to women therapists who
already work creatively with their clients but would also be of
interest to mental health practitioners and to the many women who
work with textiles as an occupation or hobby, who might like to
learn more about its therapeutic possibilities.
*Therapy Today*
For a male psychiatrist Using Textile Handcrafts in Therapy with
Women presents a unique cross-cultural journey into unfamiliar
feminine territory, ably guided by Futterman Collier who weaves
Jungian psychology, contemporary mental health practice and the
media of textile arts in a style that is both entertaining and
enlightening.
*Peter Aitken, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Royal Devon &
Exeter Hospital and Director of Research & Development, Devon
Partnership NHS Trust, UK*
The author has chosen the medium of fiber as a path to encourage
her clients to discover and create meaning out of what often
appears as senseless and traumatic. She encourages people, whether
they are helping professionals or clients, to not hold themselves
back through some expectation of having to be artistic but rather
to explore and, through some of the guidelines she has developed
over her numerous years of practice and careful observations,
regain a liberating sense of self-esteem and integrity.
*Sheila Hicks, artist, and daughter Itaka Martignoni,
gestalt-therapist*
In this book, Ann has woven her two natural callings as a
psychologist and fiber artist. She has created the likings of a
Brook's Bouquet where the weft yarn (psychology) is wrapped around
by several warps (creative art making) to draw them together. The
result is a weaving that is layered with textile art metaphors that
inspire the reader to use the creative process for self-renewal.
The golden thread that is interwoven throughout the book is the
call to listen to your creative spirit and enjoy where the textile
journey takes you.
*Kathy Gotshall, Director of the Master of Arts in Art Therapy
Program and Assistant Professor, Graduate Art Therapy, Saint
Mary-of-the-Woods College, Indiana*
By writing this book, Ann Futterman Collier has encouraged
therapists to understand and use their skills to enrich women's
lives, by expanding their horizons, and giving them tools to cope
with their journey through life while exploring textile mediums. I
heartily endorse this endeavor.
*Anne Field, international teacher, weaver, spinner and writer,
Christchurch, New Zealand*
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