Artists and Art Therapy

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Research about artists. Research at least three sources relating to "artist" and formulate a brief summary of how this population can be served through art therapy.

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As described by the BAAT, i.e. British Association of Art Therapists (2008), Art Therapy is another form of psychotherapy that uses art as a means of permitting communication between the artists and the therapist. While artists could benefit most from this kind of therapy, it is also useable for those who have little or no experience/skill with the fine arts. This is because art therapy is not focused on the aesthetic or artistic merits of the work but is more concerned with allowing patients to come to terms with their conditions and serve as a means of communication as well as personal growth.

Of course this demands that the artistic work be carried out in a safe environment which facilitates the outward expression of inner emotions, conflicts or repressed feelings. While the positive and healing relationship between the client and the therapist is a given, art therapy also brings in a third element to the relationship which is the artwork produced as art therapy. This can be a painting, sculpture, a piece of music or any artistic work which the client wishes to engage in as a medium of expression. For artists who find it particularly difficult to express themselves through verbal means, art therapy can serve as an excellent tool with which they can express themselves (BAAT, 2008).

In fact, even when they are fully able to describe their emotional states and their ideas in verbal terms, art therapy can serve as a useful means of expression as was discovered by Seaberg (1995). He notes that as a child, he lived in a family where alcoholism was not less than a disease and that placed many influences on his work as an artist. He had two exhibitions of artwork produced by himself and two other artists who had gone through abusive childhoods and found that the work produced by the group had deep connections with the unhappy childhoods they had gone through.

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Subjects: Psychology -> Therapy
Topic: Artists and Art Therapy
Level: College / University
Tags:

Artists, Art Therapy, Psychology

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Subjects: Psychology -> Therapy
Topic: Artists and Art Therapy
Level: College / University
Tags:

Artists, Art Therapy, Psychology

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