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By Lisa B. Moschini
Utilizing paintings treatment to augment conventional remedy
Art has its personal strength to faucet right into a easy a part of the human psyche, starting a nonverbal line of communique among artist and viewer, or purchaser and therapist. every so often the place language is a proscribing issue, art-making has nice power for healing development by way of giving the customer one other technique of expression. Drawing the road: artwork treatment with the tough buyer introduces psychological health and wellbeing pros of all backgrounds and adventure degrees to the ability of artwork and its use along with your consumers.
What defines "the tricky client"? every one therapist can provide a unique resolution: the kid who refuses to speak, the rapist who denies accountability for his activities, the grownup sufferer of psychotic hallucinations, to call quite a few percentages. Drawing the road covers either proper theoretical constructs of psychotherapy and useful strategies for evaluate and remedy. but what relatively brings the textual content alive are the various case background reviews—including many pattern artworks—taken from the author's 16 years of perform.
Drawing the road additionally beneficial properties:
- Coverage of a large spectrum of "difficult" consumers, from teenagers and children via adults
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However, for the purposes of this chapter we will only be analyzing them as they relate to the client’s defenses. Intellectualization Intellectualization is defined as an emotional response, or impulse, that is controlled by thinking instead of experiencing. The thoughts are a protection, or defense, against anxiety due to unacceptable impulses. “Intellectualization seeks to make a connection between drives and ideational content. In this way drives are perceived as more under ego control which can operate in the area of words and intellect as an active coping device to handle aggression” (Malmquist, 1985, p.
With regard to Axis I disorders, studies point out that select defenses have shown correlation, both positive and negative (Jacobson & Cooper). What does any of this have to do with art therapy? Everything. The use of art therapy allows clients to break through their well-honed defenses and provides an emotional release. If we look at symbolization, in which one object or idea is employed to represent another, the art product is the symbol. If we review projection, the client is able to project verbally unacknowledged feelings through his or her creations.
Thus, each time he destroyed the figure, the therapist quietly remade it. The therapist made no verbal reproach and expressed only toleration for the ambivalent feelings. This cycle continued five times, until the therapist began work on a butterfly. Once this was completed the session ended. In the third session the client was once again introduced to the clay productions. He spent his time fixing the figure the therapist had initially restored. This exchange was an important one in the relationship.