1. Introduction: Psychotherapy and the Arts: A Practitioner's Guide; Bruce Kirkcaldy.- Part 1: Literature and narrative therapy.- 2. Edvard Munch as psychotherapist: a picture is worth a thousand words; Arnold Weinstein.- 3. Stories, Parables and Metaphors: Application in Langerian Mindfulness; Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi & Ellen Langer.- 4.
Wounded Healers and the Impact of Literature, Drama and Film on Mental Health Treatment; Bruce Kirkcaldy & Ahmed Hankir.- 5. Film and Mental Health; Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio & Gurvinder Kalra.- Part 2: Theater and Dance Perspectives.- 6. A new theory of emotions and theatre; Jeff Zinn.- 7. Benefits of theatrical improvisation in the training of psychotherapists; Daniel J.
Wiener.- 8. The Dance of Presence: Mindfulness and Movement; Shauna Shapiro & Sarah de Sousa.- Part 3: Visual Arts and Painting.- 9. Making Space: Experiences Developing a Contemplative Art Program to Introduce Mindfulness to Non-Meditators; Christine Korol & Kim Sogge.- 10. Substance abuse treatment: Therapeutic applications of art; Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou & Marina Dalla.
- Part 4: Music and Performing Arts.- 11. Endeavours to quieten the "savage breast": Therapeutic applications of music; Glenn Wilson.- 12. Psychological Oddities among Performing Artists; Vincent Egan, Tony Beech & Lawrence Burrow.- 13. Emotional Intelligence, Personality Disorders and the Performing Arts; Adrian Furnham.