Art Therapy - Teaching Psychology

192 • Introduction to Art Therapy We met several times a week and Karen began to warm up to me, as well as to art. We discovered ...

Problems We Address • 193 reconnect with the personality which is the healthy self ... the Self that lives and learns and loves ...

194 • Introduction to Art Therapy On the DVD you can see Karen doing one of her dances (E). It is such a powerful testa- ment to ...

Problems We Address • 195 At first, her teacher having introduced me as an “art teacher,” Dorothy wanted and expected some instr ...

196 • Introduction to Art Therapy At her fifteenth session, Dorothy again shifted symbols, carefully drawing a pictorial “list” ...

Problems We Address • 197 Dorothy’s therapy was ending prematurely, not because she was ready, but because I was pregnant, and i ...

198 • Introduction to Art Therapy repeated urging of her teachers, her parents reluctantly brought her for treatment, choosing a ...

Problems We Address • 199 she was even able to handle a public school (with good supports), which I could never have imagined wh ...

200 • Introduction to Art Therapy Art gives people with disabilities a way to safely smear and pound, and to symboli- cally expr ...

Problems We Address • 201 Another child in Jane’s group was more seriously disturbed. At first, because of the extent of his roc ...

202 • Introduction to Art Therapy sometimes he was both doctor and patient, doing things like examining himself or giving himsel ...

Problems We Address • 203 In the spirit of the early pioneers—Viktor Lowenfeld (B) (1952, 1957) and Henry Schaeffer-Simmern (196 ...

204 • Introduction to Art Therapy Donald Uhlin (K) had become disabled after contracting polio as an adult (Figure 9.9). Having ...

Problems We Address • 205 The year 1975 also saw the birth of the National Committee*Arts for the Handicapped (NCAH), later Very ...

206 • Introduction to Art Therapy The Family of the Disabled Individual The 1974 Conference on Arts for the Mentally Retarded, w ...

Problems We Address • 207 Eating Disorders Art and other expressive therapies are very effective in the treatment of anorexia, b ...

208 • Introduction to Art Therapy Figure 9.11 One of Lila’s body drawings. Figure 9.12 Lila’s enmeshed family drawing. ...

Problems We Address • 209 Rehabilitation Unit of DC General Hospital in 1951, art therapy has been used extensively with such pa ...

210 • Introduction to Art Therapy Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) Closely related to being a surv ...

Problems We Address • 211 produced. It wasn’t mine but the teacher accepted it, even though it was very obvious by my class work ...