What is it that makes a painter return again and again to the brush, creating impressions, depictions, landscapes on the canvas? What brings a composer back…
What is it that makes a painter return again and again to the brush, creating impressions, depictions, landscapes on the canvas? What brings a composer back…
n this article, I describe key signs that may indicate why art therapy could be beneficial for you. Here, by art therapy I primarily mean expressive arts therapy, although in some respects the text may also apply to other forms of art therapy.
In this text I will open up a little about what typically happens in an expressive arts therapy group in the hope that this might lower the threshold for participation at least to some extent.
Expressive arts therapy is not just a method, but a way of meeting a person as a whole: as a feeling, imagining, and embodied being.
Here are ten principles that capture its essence:
Expressive arts therapy is a multimodal, interdisciplinary, and experiential form of therapy in which means of self-expression…