The image, the client and the therapist are three essential aspects of the art therapy relationship; each has a separate ‘voice’. In this book, originally published in 1993, the three voices come alive as the client, Kim, and the therapist, Gabrielle, tell the story of his path from suicidal despair to health and creativity through a series of extraordinary images. The images, chosen to represent the stages of Kim’s therapeutic experience, speak for themselves and convey their importance as a powerful catalyst for change. An outer voice, that of Tessa Dalley, provides a theoretical commentary on the process as it occurs, adding to the understanding of what is happening in the therapeutic encounter. This fully rounded account of clinical practice in art therapy offers a rare insight into common issues and dilemmas which will make the book of interest to both professional and non-professional readers alike.

Lamesa, 1950-1971 Sybil Stevens is seventeen and pregnant three months after Prom. Her parents banish her to a Fort Worth maternity home with a mandate to place the baby for adoption. "It's the only right thing to do," they say.

Row Row Row Your Boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily, Life is but a dream. This simple nursery rhyme can be used as a basis for simple, happy living. Children live this life naturally and by looking at each of these sentences of the Nursery Rhyme and observing how children live, adults can get back to their true selves and really start enjoying life.

New Year's Eve 2001 When aging actress, Sybil Stevens, star of 1950s Oscar-winning tear-jerker, WILTED ROSES, is found dead in her Fort Worth home, her daughter immediately becomes prime suspect. But which daughter could she be? Mona Lisa, when the star was an unwed teen, or Karen, born to Sybil and her husband, Sully O'Sullivan? Or could it possibly be someone else? A presence with a sinister motive?