Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections edited by Savneet K. Talwar (2019), Routledge Books, New York: NY, 218 pp, black & white figures.,

$39.95, ISBB-13: 978-113890969

Reviewed by Nadine Cohen, Ed.S., NCSP, ATR

In this wonderful and timely book, Savneet Ta...

     I am a white, queer, nonbinary trans music therapist. The artwork shared from this project emerged from a collaboration with a cis artist who sought to artistically represent trans and nonbinary students on our university’s campus. I experienced a lot of frustr...

                                                                     Art by Sophie Labelle (Assigned Male Comics)...

  Photo credit: Nancy Herard-Marshall

         Colonization, chattel slavery, genocide, religious, and racial persecution of Africans and their descendants in the Americas by the European empires continues to be ever present in the collective psyche of members of the Af...

There are some obvious ways in which we might connect Marxist ideas with Dramatherapy. Marxism is a theory of social change; it is a materialist viewpoint that explains power relations in society as observable and measurable. It is based in a philosophical theory of di...

After attending the Critical Pedagogy in the Arts Therapies Conference, students in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Art Therapy Counseling program made a zine documenting notes, questions, and artwork on the experience aimed at providing a window into the...

Clifford R. Joseph, age 96, receives the inaugural Cliff Joseph Award and honorarium given by the CPAT think tank in recognition of an educational career that has exemplified a radically transformative vision of the creative arts therapies that is committed to anti-rac...

Photo credit: Jonas Verstuyft

The NYU Program in Drama Therapy has, for many years, maintained a clinical internship site at Hamilton Madison House, a community-based multi-service organization in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Hamilton Madison House offers a broad range of cli...

How else can we conceive of caring relationships that retain the fullest expression of dignity and partnership for the people involved?

Each of us is here now because in one way or another we share a commitment to language and to the power of language, and to the recla...

Artist: Yasmine Awais. untitled (Medicare Bridge). Magazine collage & string. 25 x 29 cm

While scholars and practitioners have argued that we need more diversity in regards to race and ethnicity, tokenization is often the answer by institutions as opposed to embracing i...