Products

At Union Street Health Associates, we use Arts Therapy to heal aolond explore through the creative process. We welcome you to explore our videos and DVDs, continuing education courses, and other Arts Therapy offerings.

Books & Tapes by Ilene Serlin

Conversation with Laura Perls - Laura and Fritz Perls were the co-founders of Gestalt therapy. Gestalt therapy is often identified with Fritz Perls and his confrontational style. This conversation between Dr. Serlin and Laura Perls gives a more balanced perspective to the history of Gestalt by showing a feminine approach that emphasizes support and the arts. Dr. Serlin studied with Laura Perls and taught at the New York Gestalt Institute. This tape was made at the Institute in 1988 shortly before Laura's death in 1990.
Also available on DVD.

Dance Movement Therapy for Women with Breast Cancer is an 11-minute educational tape about the use of dance therapy in a 12-week support group for women living with breast cancer at California Pacific Medical Center's Institute of Health and Healing. It was supported by a grant from the Marian Chace Foundation of the American Dance Therapy Association.
Also available on DVD or videotape.


TO ORDER Conversation with Laura Perls or Dance Movement Therapy For Women With Breast Cancer, go to Dr. Serlin's Starfish Health Partners products page. For more information, email Dr. Serlin.

Videos and DVDs

Conversation with Laura Perls - Laura and Fritz Perls were the co-founders of Gestalt therapy. This video was recorded in 1988 at the New York Gestalt Institute shortly before Laura's death in 1990. Gestalt therapy is often identified with Fritz Perls and his confrontational style. This conversation between Dr. Serlin and Laura Perls gives another, more balanced perspective to the history of Gestalt by showing a feminine approach that emphasizes support and the arts.

Dr. Serlin studied with Laura Perls and taught at the New York Gestalt Institute. She is now in private practice in San Francisco at Union Street Health Associates, Inc. and also in Marin county.

Dance Therapy for Women with Breast Cancer - An 11-minute educational tape about the use of dance therapy in a 12-week support group for women living with breast cancer at California Pacific Medical Center's Institute of Health and Healing, funded by the Marian Chace Foundation of the American Dance Therapy Association.

Here are some of this tape's invaluable features:

• Provides informative interviews with dance therapist/psychologist Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, ADTR, group participants and leading experts on breast cancer

• Helps health professionals make appropriate referrals to this innovative treatment modality

• Informs breast cancer patients about the use of movement and imagery to facilitate group support, create healing rituals, and develop their personal movement programs

• Educates health professionals about incorporating movement and imagery into ongoing support groups.

TO ORDER e-mail Dr. Serlin.