Introduction to inquiry in the arts therapies / Helen Payne -- 'Why don't arts therapists do research?' / David Edwards -- From practitioner to researcher : research as a learning process / Helen payne -- The active witness : the acquisition of meaning in dramatherapy / Phil Jones -- Research into dramatherapy theory and practice : some implications for training / Lucilia Valente and David Fontana -- On 'being the thing I am' : an inquiry into the therapeutic aspects of Shakespeare's As you like it / Brenda Meldrum -- Dramatherapy across Europe, cultural contradictions : an inquiry into the parameters of British training and practice / Ditty Dokter -- Retrospective review of pictures : data for research in art therapy / Joy Schaverien -- Art of science with clients : beginning collaborative inquiry in process work, art therapy and acute states / Sheila McClelland, Ann and Pat -- Research as an act of creation / Bonnie Meekums -- Movement assessment in schizophrenia / Laurence Higgins -- Emerging methodology in dance movement therapy research : a way forward / Bonnie Meekums and Helen Payne -- Feeling of sound : the effect of music and low frequency sound in reducing anxiety and challenging behaviour in clients with learning difficulties / Tony Wigram -- Research in music therapy with sexually abused clients / Penny Rogers -- Permission to play : the search for self through music therapy research with children presenting with communication difficulties / Alison Levinge.