Sunday, October 21, 2007

Art Psychotherapy (Wiley Series on Personality Processes) [Paperback]

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Harriet Wadeson
ISBN : 9780471629047
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The definitive text on the art therapy field and the first to deal with a broad spectrum of psychiatric populations. Opening section discusses such fundamentals as history, philosophy, etc. Subsequent sections deal with how art therapy can be used in treating/understanding affective disorders, schizophrenia, neurosis and addiction; and as a tool in group or family therapy. Final section is first to examine problems in research. Includes 150 illustrations, with patient/client comments.
  • Series: Wiley Series on Personality Processes
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (October 30, 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471629049
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471629047
  • Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 5.9 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

Art Psychotherapy

This work was originally published almost 20 years ago; the copyright date indicates the paperback version. Potential readers would be wise to go to more contemporary volumes than this one for current info on art therapy. This book is basically well-written, just terribly old information and more historic than anything else.
By A Customer
I purchased this book for my Kindle, and the information it contained was fantastic. However, around chapter 21, the images that accompany this publication were missing. I contacted Amazon several times, and was basically given the runaround. I was first told that some publications don't contain images in the Kindle edition. I told them that I believed that was not the case in this instance, as the images prior to Figure 21.21 were present, and after they were missing. I was then told that the technical team would investigate and contact me in 2-3 days. A week went by, and I heard nothing, so I contacted them again. This time they told me the problem was with my Kindle (which I doubted, since the same images were missing on my PC Kindle Reader), but fine, I played along. I shut off my Kindle, rebooted my Kindle, reloaded the publication, etc. The same problem. I told them this, and they said they would investigate further.

When I first reported this issue, the Kindle edition of this publication was removed from sales. About a week later I checked again and found that it was being offered for sale again. Fantastic! Nope... same problem.

Over a month of contacting Amazon, and getting false promises that included 1) contacting me with updates and 2) emailing me a new file once the problem was resolved, I finally just threw in the towel and requested a refund. Refunds, they can apparently do quite well, as they did not hesitate to honor my request. However, it seems as though no one at Amazon was really interested in correcting the corrupted file or in providing great customer service.

I wouldn't have been so insistant that this issue be corrected, if this had not been an Art Psychotherapy book. The images are important, in my opinion, and it's a real disappointment that Amazon was less than capable of fixing this problem.
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