Using Textile Arts and Handcrafts in Therapy with Women: Weaving Lives Back Together

Contents

• Preface.
• 1. Introduction: Why Fiber is Good for Your Psyche.
• 2. Threads of Time: Women and Textile-making.
• 3. She's Come Unraveled: Mental Well-being in Girls and Women.
• 4. Uncovering the Truth: Assessing Where to Start.
• 5. Interwoven Lives: Cross-cultural Applications of Textile Art Therapy.
• 6. Theoretical Underpinnings of Textile Art Therapy.
• 7. Pulling in the Warp Threads You Will Weave With: Issues, Metaphors, and Project Suggestions.
• 8. Unveiling the Textile Techniques.
• 9. Spin the Web: Circles of Women.
• 10. Psychologically Minded Female Textile Artists: Incredible Examples. Appendix: Textile Survey. References. Subject Index. Author Index.