Publications
Cornelia Elbrecht has authored four internationally published books on Guided Drawing and Clay Field Therapy® – drawing on her extensive experiences with clinical art therapy practice. These books have become corner-stone resources for anyone interested in the healing potential of sensorimotor art therapies.
Her books are available from major booksellers in both paperback and ebook formats.
Healing Trauma in Children with Clay Field Therapy
How Sensorimotor Art Therapy Supports the Embodiment of Developmental Milestones
Author: Cornelia Elbrecht; Foreword by Cathy Malchiodi PhD North Atlantic Books 2021, Berkeley California
From the moment we’re born, we rely on our hands to perceive the world. It’s through touch that we communicate with our primary caregivers and attain an abiding sense of love and security. In Clay Field therapy, client children work with clay and water in a rectangular box. The therapeutic focus is not on object creation, but on the touch connection with the clay as a symbolic external world. Movement, touch, and sensory feedback that have long been out of reach are actualized through the creative process, enabling the child to heal past wounds and regain a more fulfilling sense of self.
Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing
A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping
Author: Cornelia Elbrecht; Foreword by Cathy Malchiodi PhD North Atlantic Books 2018, Berkeley California
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Rhythmic bilateral repetition is used to express muscular tension, pain and emotions. Clients then, with an almost massage-like approach, find movements that soothe the pain, discharge inner tension and repair boundary breaches. Simple archetypal shapes, meanwhile, offer invaluable non-verbal intervention tools to the therapists.
Trauma Healing at the Clay Field
A Sensorimotor Approach to Art Therapy
Author: Cornelia Elbrecht
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2012, London/Philadelphia
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Using clay in therapy taps into the most fundamental of human experiences - touch. This book is a comprehensive step-by-step training manual that covers all aspects of 'Work at the Clay Field', a sensorimotor-based art therapy technique.
Trauma Healing at the Clay Field has been translated into Korean, Russian and a Spanish edition is under way.
The Transformation Journey
The Process of Guided Drawing – An Initiatic Art Therapy
Author: Cornelia Elbrecht
Johanna Nordländer Verlag 2006, Todtmoos-Rütte.
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Decades of development have created this invaluable tool for therapists, students and artists that combines Jungian Analytical Psychology, transpersonal approaches, bodywork and art. Guided Drawing is a unique art therapy technique; a creative way to tell our Greater Story. Archetypes are evoked through the mindful repetition of simple abstract shapes, often with both hands and closed eyes. In trusting one's inner guidance the unconscious can reveal painful memories, destructive powers, but also unexpected wisdom and abundant healing.
Cornelia has also co-authored two significant academic articles and contributed to several other books and publications.
Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children
The Clay Field and Developmental Trauma in Children
Author: Cornelia Elbrecht (Chapter 9)
Edited by: Cathy Malchiodi
The Guildford Press 2015, New York
Australian Childhood Foundation Journal
Being in touch: Healing developmental and attachment trauma at the Clay Field
Authors: Cornelia Elbrecht and Liz Antcliff
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2015 - Interpreting neuroscience, creating evidence - a collection of Australian based trauma informed research and practice
Inscape: International Journal of Art Therapy
Being Touched Through Touch: Trauma Treatment Through Haptic Perception at the Clay Field: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy
Authors: Cornelia Elbrecht and Liz Antcliff
Published by Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group and The British Association of Art Therapists
Volume 19, 2014 – Issue 1: Art Therapy and Neuroscience
Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing
A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping: Chinese Language Translation 2019
Author: Cornelia Elbrecht; Foreword by Cathy Malchiodi PhD North Atlantic Books 2019, Berkeley California
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This is the Mandarin language version of Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing.
Die Wandlungsreise
Der Prozess des Geführten Zeichnens, eine initiatische Kunsttherapie
Author: Cornelia Elbrecht
Johanna Nordländer Verlag 2011, Todtmoos-Rütte
This is the German language version of The Transformation Journey.