Outsider Art and Art Therapy Format:Trade Paperback Taking an interdisciplinary approach that

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at the person at risk

parents and anyone working with students with learning difficulties will also find many of the ideas useful

Chapters also include a discussion of the context

From her first inklings of Elijah's difference to her discovery of a whole spectrum of another way of life that includes everything from civil rights organizations for autistics to Asperger artists

using a call-and-response method in which a line is read out and is repeated by everyone in the group

Outsider Art and Art Therapy Format:Trade Paperback Taking an interdisciplinary approach thatOutsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy have shared histories of art created in psychiatric care. As the two fields grow, this book reveals the current issues faced by both disciplines and traces their shared histories to help them build clearer and more coherent identities. More often than not, the history of art therapy has been tied to psychological and psychiatric roots, which