This course will explore the fundamental interconnection between the artistic process and psychotherapy, in terms of their mutual concern with in-depth communication of emotional experience, and with transformation and change. It focuses on the three-way process of psychotherapist, client and art object and also aims to provide participants with a thorough grounding in various theoretical models and schools of thought relating to the therapeutic relationship: the central issues of being with another, the dialogic encounter, the meeting of two subjective worlds and the study of transference and counter transference. It covers modules: fundamentals in the theory and practice of integrative arts psychotherapy, clinical skills in integrative arts psychotherapy, therapeutic relationship, psychotherapeutic concepts for understanding human experience, artistic experience and emotion with reference to psychotherapy, reflection and analysis of artistic experience in psychotherapy and society.