Stephen K. Levine is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at York University (Toronto), Vice-Provost and Dean of the Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts Therapy, Education, Consulting and Social Change at the European Graduate School on Switzerland and Co-Director of ISIS-Canada, a training programme in expressive arts therapy. He has earned doctorates in philosophy and anthropology from the New School for Social Research, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Expressive Therapy at Lesley University. He is the author of Poiesis: The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul, co-author of Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics, and co-editor of Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. He is Editor of Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication and is a registered Expressive Arts Therapist (IEATA), actor and poet.

Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction.; Part I. From Trauma to Tragedy.; 1.. Going to the Ground: Reflections on the Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy.; 2. Mimetic Wounds: From Trauma to Tragedy.; 3. Trauma, Therapy and the Arts: Towards a Dionysian Poiesis.; Part II. Chaos Into Form.; 4. Order and Chaos in Therapy and the Arts: An Encounter.; 5. Is Order Enough? Is Chaos too Much? Art, Therapy and the Search for Wholeness - A Dialogue.; 6. The Expressive Body: A Fragmented Totality.; 7. The Second Coming: Beauty, Chaos and the Arts.; 8. The Art of Despair: Therapy After Godot. Chapter; 9. Researching Information - Imagining Research.; 10. A Fragmented Totality? An Interview.; Part III. Poiesis After Post-Modernism.; 11. Poiesis and Praxis: Between Art and Action.; 12. Be Like Jacques: Mimesis with a Difference.; 13. What Can I Say Dear After I've Said Sorry? Poiesis After Post-Modernism. References.