61st Annual Conference

Workshop 112
Group Art Therapy Through the Spontaneous Art Method

Chairs:            

Krista Soste, MC, M.A., CSAC, CGP, Master's Level Therapist, Jewish

Family and Children's Service, Phoenix, Arizona

Eugenia Sutcliffe, Ph.D., BC, ATR, Private Practice, Phoenix, Arizona

This group art therapy workshop will demonstrate the spontaneous art method utilizing self object and relational perspectives. Through a dialogue between group participants and facilitators, the art will be examined both thematically as reflective of developmental patterning and structurally as illuminating contextual organizing principles.

experiential-didactic-demonstration-sharing of work experiences

Course References:

1. Buirski, P. & Haglund, P. (2001). Making Sense Together. Northvale. NJ: Jason Aronson

    Inc.

2. Hagman, G. (2000). The creative process. In Goldberg, A. (Ed), How responsive should we be?

    Progress in Self Psychology, 277-297. Hillsdale, New Jersey: The Analytic Press.

3. Livingston, M. (1999). Vulnerability, tenderness and the experience of selfobject relationship: A

    psychological view of deepening curative process in group psychotherapy. International Journal

    Group Psychotherapy, 49, 19-40.