Review: Hogan, Susan. Revisiting Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy

Abstract

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Susan Hogan’s second edition of Revisiting Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy discusses alternative approaches to therapy in a fresh and nuanced way. Hogan poses the question that if feminism is the equality of all genders, then why are therapies created by men the only techniques used? Therefore, art therapy becomes a way to help evolve psychiatry within its aim to care for the whole person. Likewise, Susan Hogan in "Forward to the Second Edition" sees art therapy as an activist action to avoid the hegemonic structure associated with traditional therapies, “in order to avoid oppressing women with misogynistic discourses that are embedded in theories and practice” (xx).