Main Chapters
Objects and Materials
Art materials, musical
instruments, and objects in
drama and movement
therapy
The Therapeutic Space
Deepening the observation of diverse studios as spaces for recovery and transformation
Theory and History
Various therapeutic approaches and unique tools in arts therapies
Life Cycles
Typical crossroads in human life, moments of crisis and growth
The Therapist's Identity
Professional, artistic, therapeutic, and experiential development
Therapy in a Multicultural Society
Psychotherapy as a Kaleidoscope of Local Cultures and Religions
About The Library Project
Human cultures have passed down accumulated knowledge primarily through stories, mythologies, poetry, music, and rituals. This library serves as a shelf that resonates with the fields of arts therapies through diverse forms of writing. This flexibility enhances and highlights the content, allowing you, the reader, to connect more deeply with what the text conveys.
This library is an open studio of texts and images for independent learning, guidance, inspiration, and writing. This kaleidoscope will expand and accumulate in Hebrew, English, and Arabic.
The texts and materials are sorted into six key topics, allowing you to easily find materials and content related to any topic or area that concerns you.
We are eagerly working on expanding the library and adding materials. We invite you to recommend relevant materials and/or send your text to the library.
New Materials
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Silicone in the Crucible, Niva Bar-Shimon
That long, transparent thing with its metamorphic container manages to astonish, every time, again. A squeeze of the trigger producing a bond. The cartridge, unwilling, is forced toward an unknown fate. Most often, it dances its drunken sway, spills out, loses form, builds slowly, then trickles and flows beyond control. Within minutes, it steams with gleaming vapors, slides from here to there and back again, grips everything and releases nothing. Or else, lets go all at once, failing to meet...
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Studio principals - videos, Nona Orbach
This page features short videos that highlight key points in studio thinking for therapy and education. Since these topics often come up together, I decided to create brief videos and gather them here in this library. Feel free to use and share these videos; they may also be helpful for teaching and supervision. Save this page link for future reference, as more videos are planned to be added here. Nona Orbach nonaorbach@gmail.com
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Needles and Fibers, Niva Bar-Shimon
An entry hole and an exit hole. Wounded fabric. A bleeding path of trailing thread, torn, or lost along the way. Hole after hole. The needle rises and falls, at times brushing close to the face, at times far from it. Sometimes it vanishes behind a screen, and you can only guess from where it will return. A practiced hand finds, through the fabric’s dense weave, the next stopping point. The other hand, less skilled, is startled by the sharp flicker of pain. Stitch upon stitch, at even,...
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