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Art Therapy – An Old Practice, A Young Discipline

June 23, 2011

Art therapy

Art therapy is a rather newly developed psychotherapy discipline, aimed at helping people understand and overcome their psychological and psychiatric problems using visual art as medium of expression (painting, drawing, sculpting and photography). Although it has a recent history as a self standing discipline, art as a method of overcoming personal problems has a history as old as that of humanity itself. Read More

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Art Therapy

June 7, 2011

Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy. While regular psychotherapy sessions rely on verbal communication to establish the link between a therapist and the patient, art therapy employs art and media to do this. Its purpose is to generate a state of well-being for the patient by using the creative process of making art. The most common activities are drawing, painting, photographs Read More

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