Creativity & Coping: When the Therapist is Ill
by Michael A. Franklin & Harriet Wadeson
Prominent Art Therapists and their Journeys to Healing

This is a grouping of presentations from the Expressive Therapies in Medicine Institute in Alexandria, Virginia, April 2013.

  • The first grouping, presented by Dr.Judy Rubin, is a film about dance therapist Penny Lewis (DMT) and her means of coping with terminal colon cancer.
  • The second presentation is by Laura Greenstone, MS, ATR-BC, LPC, titled, “Spare Parts: Perspectives on Art Making to Cope with Chronic Illness and Organ Transplantation.”
  • Next is a presentation titled, “The Gift of Cancer: Tracking Longitudinal Embodied Narratives of Fragility and Resiliency through Art and Meditation,” by Michael A. Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC.
  • The final presentation is Harriet Wadeson, PhD, LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM, titled, “Journaling Cancer in Words and Images."
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  • The first grouping, presented by Dr.Judy Rubin, is a film about dance therapist Penny Lewis (DMT) and her means of coping with terminal colon cancer.
  • The second presentation is by Laura Greenstone, MS, ATR-BC, LPC, titled, “Spare Parts: Perspectives on Art Making to Cope with Chronic Illness and Organ Transplantation.”
  • Next is a presentation titled, “The Gift of Cancer: Tracking Longitudinal Embodied Narratives of Fragility and Resiliency through Art and Meditation,” by Michael A. Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC.
  • The final presentation is Harriet Wadeson, PhD, LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM, titled, “Journaling Cancer in Words and Images.”

This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc. 

Length of video: 3:03:00

English subtitles available

Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-624-2

Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-624-0



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