Ebook: Outsider art and art therapy: shared histories, current issues and future identities

Outsider Art and Art Therapy: Shared Histories, Current Issues, and Future Identities by Rachel Cohen; List of Images; Color Plates; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Shared Histories in Mental Health; Chapter 2. Shared Histories in Art; Chapter 3. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Art Therapy; Chapter 4. Contemporary Issues of Definition and Terminology: Outsider Art; Chapter 5: Continuums of Meaning; References; Subject Index; Author Index; List of Images; Introduction; Figure 1.1. Menu, Kenya Hanley, 2016. Credit: The artist and LAND Gallery. (Color Plate 1).;This book explores the intersection of outsider art, traditionally the work of psychiatric patients, offenders and minority groups, and art therapy. It focuses on their shared histories of art created in psychiatric care in order to help to clarify how each field is defined and identified today.