Description
Part One: The meaningfulness of comics and graphic novels 1.Graphic novels and comics for therapy and education by Natalie Rae Carlton 2.Graphic Novels as Social Justice by Djuna Carlton 3.How Symbols are Made by Natalie Rae Carlton Part Two: Demonstrations of comics and graphic novels in art therapy practice: Process and structure 4.Disrupting the Trauma Narrative: Deconstructing Comic Books and DBT by Jessica Massino Drass 5.Embodied Impacts of Trauma by Katharine Houpt 6.Use of Therapeutic Graphic Montage to Address Loneliness by Jonas Ginsburg Part Three: Using comics and graphic novels in autobiographical and artistic response practices as art therapists 7.Being here is hard (scary/bullsh*t/easy/hell/stupid/better than home/why im alive) by Quinn Rivenburgh 8.exit: Buried Underneath by Alex Wright 9.Unspoken kinship within the therapeutic relationship by Naimah Thomas 10.Hope and Despair: Images from the hospital by Deborah John 11.Media Evocation by Natalie Rae Carlton
Dr Natalie Rae Carlton is an Associate Professor of Art therapy and Arts-based research in the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.