"Arts Therapies and Progressive Illness" is a guide to the use of arts therapies in the treatment of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. In the last few years arts therapies have been used in an increasingly wide range of applications with new groups of patients, such as patients in palliative care, or with learning disabilities - Diane Waller has been a driving force behind this expansion. Together with an impressive array of contributors, Waller covers treatments such as art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy.
This broadly focused, multi-disciplinary book will be of great interest to arts therapists, arts therapy educators, medical, social work and other staff who are concerned with developing care plans for patients and their relatives.

Higgins,Foreword.Waller, Arts Therapies, Progressive Illness, Dementia - the Difficulty of Being. Evans, In the Waiting Room of the Grim Reaper. Bunce, The Living Death: Dance Movement Therapy with Parkinson's Patients. Cossio, Art Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Invalidating Conditions: From Parkinson's Disease to Alzheimer's. Magee, Case Studies in Huntington's Disease: Music Therapy Assessment and Treatment in the Early to Advanced Stages. Tyler, Art Therapy with Older Adults Clinically Diagnosed as Having Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias. Evans, Real World or Fantasy? Waller, Living with Dementia: Interview with Neil McArthur. Falk, A Narrowed Sense of Space: An Art Therapy Group with Young Alzheimer's Sufferers. Waller, Evaluating the Use of Art Therapy for Older People with Dementia: A Control Group Study. Waller, Changing the Context of Care: Opening up the System; Interview with Kamal Beeharee. Tingey, Art as a Therapy for Parkinson's. Jerrome, Circles of the Mind: The Use of Therapeutic Circle Dance with Older People with Dementia. Waller, Nameless Dread - A Carer's Story. Index.

Diane Waller is Professor of Art Therapy at Goldsmith's College. Her previous publications include Becoming a Profession: The History of Art Therapy in Britain 1940-82 (1991), Group-Interactive Art Therapy (1993), and Treatment of Addiction (1998, co-edited with Jacqueline Mahony).