Yehudit is committed to the arts as a method for inquiry, creative expression, therapy, and social change. She combines her therapeutic and artistic skills to create evocative documentaries to raise awareness about challenging subjects.

Professor

Associate professor, Creative Arts Therapies Department, Concordia University Montreal, Quebec.

Therapist

Registered Dance/Movement and Drama Therapist with 20 years experience working in hospitals in psychiatry, medicine, and trauma.

Originated the The Story Within: myth and fairytale in therapy approach, and has written articles and textbook chapters, and an original documentary film based on her approach. The film, writings and approach are used in the curriculum in several Universities, and have been presented internationally at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Japan.

Filmmaker

The Hidden Face of Suicide © March, 2010
Produced, written, and directed by Yehudit Silverman (58 minutes)

The Story Within - myth and fairy tale in therapy-© 2004
Produced and Directed by Yehudit Silverman (53 minutes)

Researcher

Recipient Canadian Federal SSHRC Grant
Recipient Quebec FQRSC Grant
Recipient Concordia University CASA and Seed Mobilization Grants
Recipient of the 2009 NADT research award.

Research interests- arts based – (mask, film, drama therapy, creative arts therapies projective techniques,) narrative research, community research, heuristic research

Multi-cultural Community Events

May, 2009 organized a Multi-cultural Suicide Awareness and the Arts meeting which brought together representatives from several different cultural, religious, age, communities to dialogue through different creative mediums about the important issue of suicide.

June 2010 Organizing a second Multi-cultural Suicide Awareness and the Arts meeting which will bring together representatives from more communities including First Nation and Inuit as well as different cultural, religious, age, communities to dialogue through different creative mediums about the important issue of suicide.

Publications

Silverman, Y. (2004). The story within - myth and fairy tale in therapy. The Arts in Psychotherapy. Vol 31/3 pp. 127-135

Silverman, Y. (2005). Drama therapy - theoretical approaches. In Brooke, S. Creative arts therapies modalities a guide to the history, theoretical approaches, assessment, and work with special populations of art, play, dance, music, drama, and poetry therapies New York: Charles C Thomas

Silverman, Y. (2006). Drama therapy with adolescent survivors of sexual abuse: the use of myth, metaphor and fairytale. In Brooke, S. The use of the creative therapies with sexual abuse survivors. New York: Charles C Thomas