Looks at the breadth and scope of adult art therapy. Amongst others, it looks at work with physically and psychologically disabled adults, with women with eating disorders, with AIDS patients and with mothers of incestuously abused children.
Adult Art Psychotherapy illuminates the range of ever-expanding nature of art therapy as it completes its first two decades of formal existence. The editors suggest that clinical art therapy is capable of adapting to different theories and methods of therapy and that it is equally facile in responding to the diverse problems, opportunities and changes in adult life.