Art Therapy

By Yvonne Kolcz

Do you want to gain insight and clarity around a problem you are encountering? Art Therapy offers a simple way to see your situation from a different perspective, and you don't need to be an artist to do it.

 

People with emotional problems can be helped to express their deepest thoughts and feeling visually through art therapy. Instead of being given drugs to suppress their symptoms, patients are encouraged to communicate their feelings to others by way of drawing and painting. Often fears and needs are expressed that are so deeply buried that the person is not normally even aware of them.

 

What you will learn in this book

• Discover the Healing Properties of Collage Art: It had been considered that collage art and healing can be linked with each other to become one. For many, therapeutic art is a spiritual route, a transformational course of action, an approach of being, as well as the power of the creative process of art as a healing power. Creating art frees the body's healing systems to heal. It unites body, brain, and soul.
• Art Therapy Wellness Solution: How does art therapy help Alzheimer's patients, those diagnosed with cancer, eating disorders and Jihadists? Once a small attachment to "talk therapies," art therapy has developed into a successful treatment for a wide variety of mental and physical illnesses.
• Color Therapy & Affirmations for Success & Wellbeing: Specific colors can help you to feel better and lift your moods, when this happens your whole physiology comes back into balance. If you are constantly worrying about finances, find out what you can do to relieve the worries so that you are in a positive state of mind to be able to attract wealth and abundance your way.
• How Does Color Therapy Work?: Color Therapy is healing with color. Studies have shown that when color is introduced to the human system it causes cellular and hormonal changes thus bringing the cells into synchronization or balance with the color. The influence certain colors have on different bodily systems, and which are most suitable to use in therapy.
• Life Coaching through Color: Life coaching through color will take advantage of the various health benefits and mental attributes associated with each color to help you find balance. For example, a color therapist may encourage wearing more blue to improve communication. Alternatively, bedroom walls could be painted green to encourage serenity and reduce stress, thereby increasing relaxation to help you get a good night's sleep. Just as life is energy, life is also color! Color therapy has proven throughout centuries to be a non-invasive therapeutic practice, suitable for all ages. The use of chromotherapy and life coaching is a simple practice. Allow color to radiate within you, heal aches, pains and frustrations, while restoring vibrancy to your life.

 

The book deals with the use of art as a form of therapy for anxiety and other psycho-emotional problems. The roots of this form of psycho-therapy are also discussed together with the actual benefits of undergoing therapy through the creative process of artwork.

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Yvonne Kolcz
• Release date: Mar 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393321132

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Art therapy

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

Art Therapy

Analysis of Art Therapy

Art Therapy with Children

What Are the Benefits of Art Therapy?

How to Use Art Therapy as a Means of Stress Relief

The Art and Skills of Active Release Therapy

CHAPTER TWO

The Healing Power of Art Therapy

Discover the Healing Properties of Collage Art

How Art Collage Could Be Healing?

Art and Creativity for Healing

Art Therapy Wellness Solution

CHAPTER THREE

The Psychology of Happiness

The Art of Happiness

The Art of Happiness through Personal Development

Tao Wisdom in the Art of Happiness

Useful Tips of Being Happy

CHAPTER FOUR

Color Therapy

Color Therapy & Affirmations for Success & Wellbeing

Benefits of Color Therapy

How Does Color Therapy Work?

Let Color Therapy Improve Your Mood and Health

CHAPTER FIVE

Color Healing

Healing Power of Colors

Healing Through Color Perception

Life Coaching Through Color

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Art therapy hardly seems as if a person would watch a TV show or film as the traditional type of therapy. Therapy is hardly the age-old stereotype that can be imagined by people who have no personal therapy experience. New methods and ideas are constantly being developed and put into practice to help people more than before. With more options available to individuals suffering from a phobia, depression, or any other condition, they will be more likely to work and have a better life. Art therapy is one of many proven methods used to support people in dealing with the problems that make their lives harder than necessary.

Art therapy is virtually all about this type of therapy. It is where a person uses art to express himself, whether it is clay, paints, or pencils. It is a therapy that allows a person to explore his inner feelings, dreams, or memories in a manner that can often be simpler than words. This method enables a therapist to learn more about what the patient is disturbing. Learning more about the patient can help the therapist decide what the patient needs for the best treatment or therapy to continue the treatment or overcome their depression.

A common misunderstanding about art therapy is that it is more used in children who seem to suffer as a result of an incident or condition, but, it is for almost everybody. Whatever the age of the patient, art therapy can help people with depression, abuse, or a specific phobia. Art encourages a person to be more creative and can understand themselves and their problems better through this type of therapy. It will also help the counselor or therapist to find the answers he or she needs to help his patient through a window into the subconscious of the patient. Being creative can often even bring out a person's most subconscious thoughts without even realizing them. After all, many of the problems that a person may have can often be identified by the therapist, which helps them to examine the issues at the root of the situation in a more profound way. By understanding the problem, the therapist can treat the patient correctly, either by means of medicinal or non-medicinal therapies.

Art therapy is perhaps the best way for a therapist to help a patient learn about their problems and the condition. Sometimes words are just insufficient and cannot explain fully what a patient feels or do. Art has a way to allow a person to fully express his feelings. Words can sometimes be narrow, where art has no real limits, and this is what makes this type of therapy a great option both for young and old.

CHAPTER ONE

Art Therapy

Art therapy provides opportunities for understanding, expression, and communication within a safe therapeutic relationship between the client and the therapist. This can be done individually and in groups. It is often used in educational settings, psychiatric wards, art psychotherapy, self-development groups, nursing homes, rehabilitation programs, prisons, and many other places. Art therapy can open a fascinating path into everyone's unconscious world. This world is a source of ingenuity, originality, energy, suppressed emotions, impulses, and conflicts. Art therapy uses various forms of art therapeutically to

liberate oppressed emotions and experiences, communicate symbolically with the unconscious, and explore their development and growth.

What Happens During an Art Therapy Session?

The therapist usually provides a lot of material available to the client. These materials include paper, cardboard, paints crayons, crayons, pencils and pencils, clay, textiles, old magazines (for collages), trees, or other materials that the therapist will find interesting and inspiring to clients. Clients are asked to create an image or object with a specific theme or to choose their own theme. Some people find it difficult to be spontaneous, so they may prefer the subject they will work on. Others may want to create something unique out of their ideas. The therapist gently encourages the client to experiment with different materials and substances during treatment.

It's important to feel that customers are in control of their work. Art therapy can be a delightful experience for clients to see paintings on paper they create. The client created a previously locked image within himself. It can be a real art and a rewarding experience. The therapist helps the client explore the meaning of the creation and the emotions they experience before, during, and after the creation of the work. The responsibility of an art therapist is to help people find ways to relate to the images they create, understand their creations, and apply the knowledge gained in their daily lives. The importance of work is revealed, for example, through discussions about a peaceful, intense, or violent workplace atmosphere or atmosphere. It also explores the relationships (e.g., balance, contrast, or harmony) between different elements of the work. The color, size, and thickness of the selected stroke are also important. Sometimes customers express a lot of emotion through images. For example, anger can be expressed as a fire, hurricane, or explosion, and a closed-door or dust stream can indicate control. Sometimes customers can only create happy photos. It can be conscious or unconscious negation. It's a way to hide your anger or sadness and impress the outside world that everything is fine.

All human experiences can be expressed in symbolic forms: loss and separation, violence, anger, isolation, love, trust, despair, fear, anxiety, self-hatred, shame, guilt, sadness, joy, healing. Customers always hold the key to the meaning of images and works of art. Many images have a universal meaning, but the images created by humans have a personal and specific purpose. If the therapist interprets