Memory: Shaping Connections in the Arts Therapies

Memory is compilation of scholarly chapters by authors of global reputation in the arts therapies.

This international publication reflects the theme of the 16th International Conference of the European Consortium for Arts Therapies (ECArTE), held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Questions of memory go to the very heart of our making sense of the world. This book brings together wide-ranging chapters, which address the question of memory, designed to stimulate understanding and debate in contemporary arts therapy education, practice and research.

Writers from Canada, Estonia, Germany, Iceland, Lebanon, Lithuania, Spain, UK, and USA combine to create a topical publication, incorporating diverse and current thinking in art therapy, dance movement therapy, dramatherapy and music therapy. In this innovative compilation, authors offer different cultural perspectives on the conception of memory which informs epistemology across the field of arts therapy.

This book will be of interest and relevance to those in the arts therapy community and to a broader readership, including students and professionals in the disciplines of psychology, sociology, psychotherapy, the arts, medicine, integrated health, and education.

Marián Cao is an Art Therapist and Professor of Art Education and Art Therapy at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She teaches and lectures in Spain and internationally. Founder director of the Arts Therapy Masters’ programme at University Complutense of Madrid, and former director of the Ph.D. programme on Art, Art Therapy and Social Inclusion, she has coordinated several Latinoamerican University programmes.

Richard Hougham is a Principal Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, where he is course leader for the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme. He is currently Chair of the Executive Board of the European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE) and has a particular interest in intercultural dialogues and epistemology in the international teaching of arts therapies.

Sarah Scoble is Honorary President of ECArTE. She served on the Executive Board of ECArTE for many years and was Chair from 2009 to 2017. Founder trainer in southwest UK in Dramatherapy and former director of Masters in Dramatherapy programmes, University of Exeter, she is Series Editor with Diane Waller for an annual International Research in the Arts Therapies publication with Routledge, in association with ECArTE and the International Centre for Research in Arts Therapies (ICRA).