/reviews

2025

Exhibition review – Internal Landscapes, Dax Centre / Reviewed by Georgia Ruby Polichroniadis

July 2025

Book review – Psychedelics and Art Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Manual for Somatic Self-Discovery, by Charmaine Husum / Reviewed by Amanda Levey

June 2025

Book review – Art Therapy as Cumulative Trauma Repair, by Jennifer Albright Knash / Reviewed by Georgia Polichroniadis

April 2025

Exhibition review: Truth-telling and truth-listening: A response to the work of Tennant Creek Brio / Jo Campbell, with Tessa Priest

March 2025

Thirty years later: Reflecting on Minstrels of Soul and the roots of intermodal expressive arts therapy / Richard Wainwright and Bobbie Rasmussen-Merz

March 2025

Volume 20, number 1, 2025

2024

Book review: Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross / Tamar Torrance

November 2024

Exhibition review: The Anxiety Project, Dax Centre / Jan Allen

October 2024

Book review – Dragon Slippers: Why Rosalind Penfold’s graphic novel is still so relevant to creative arts therapies / Kiki Havos

September 2024

Volume 19, number 2, 2024

Response to the JoCAT review of ‘The proven efficacy of creative arts therapies: What the literature tells us’ / Deanne K Gray and Kate Dempsey

June 2024

What the literature about the literature tells us: ANZACATA’s research report on efficacy of the creative arts therapies – Book review / Reviewed by Sheridan Linnell

April 2024

Book review – The art and art therapy of papermaking: Material, methods and applications, edited by Drew Matott and Gretchen Miller / Reviewed by Keisha Rheinberger

May 2024

Exhibition review – Creative Sanctuary / Reviewed by Beatrice Wharldall

April 2024

Volume 19, number 1, 2024

2023

Book review – Dramatherapy with elders and people with dementia: Enabling developmental wellbeing, by Joanna Jaaniste / Reviewed by Kirsten Meyer

April 2023

Book review – A feminist approach to sensitive research: Designing the Clay Embodiment Research Method, by Tricia Ong / Reviewed by Tania Blomfield

March 2023

Volume 18, number 1, 2023

2022

Book review – Qualitative and digital research in times of crisis: Methods, reflexivity, and ethics, edited by Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo / Reviewed by Amanda Woodford

November 2022

Book review – Art therapy in response to natural disasters, mass violence, and crises, edited by Joseph Scarce / Reviewed by Özlem Güler

October 2022

Exhibition review – Māpura Studios: Just my Imagination / Reviewed by Vic Segedin

October 2022

Volume 17, number 2, 2022

Book review – Healing trauma in children with Clay Field therapy, by Cornelia Elbrecht / Reviewed by Liz Antcliff

August 2022

Book review – Arts therapies in international practice: Informed by neuroscience and research, edited by Caroline Miller and Mariana Torkington / Reviewed by Johanna Davies

August 2022

Volume 17, number 1, 2022

2021

Book review – Therapeutic arts in pregnancy, birth and new parenthood, edited by Susan Hogan / Reviewed by Sasha Iyengar

December 2021

Book review – Found objects in art therapy: Materials and process, edited by Daniel Wong and Ronald Lay / Reviewed by Han Li June

December 2021

Book review – What happened to you? Conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey / Reviewed by Nikki O’Connor

December 2021

Exhibition review – A Multiplicity of Voices: Celebrating the perspectives of Pasifika artists at Māpura Studios / Reviewed by Vic Segedin

December 2021

Volume 16, number 2, 2021

Book review – Arts therapies with people with physical disabilities: An archetypal approach, by Marion Gordon-Flower / Reviewed by Agnès Desombiaux-Sigley

July 2021

Volume 16, number 1, 2021

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Archived ANZJAT issues

Complete digital versions of the first two issues of ANZJAT unfortunately do not yet exist. We are in the process of digitising these first two issues and some items are now available. More will be added over the coming months, celebrating our 20 years in publishing. If you require an article that is not yet digitised, please contact the JoCAT coordinator on coordinator@jocat-online.org and they will send a hard copy to you.