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#CBR8 Review #03: Introduction to Art Therapy - Faith in the Product by Bruce Moon

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I feel like at the stage that I am at in my art therapy program, it is strange to have to read a book with the words "Introduction to Art Therapy" in the title. Shouldn't I be past that? And I have indeed already been required to read a lot of other material by Bruce Moon in the same field. And yet, something about this book really helped at this point in my studies with concretizing some ideas for me that I have been presented with before, but have not yet really envisioned the practicalities or application of. If that makes sense? It also helps that Moon has a very straightforward writing style that captures the essence of what he is trying to say, without being too dry like many textbooks, or too abstract like I have actually found a number of the texts in art therapy in particular to be. In this book, Moon essentially lays out some information on the development of art therapy in the US, briefly describes some of the major theorietical foundations within the field