1995
DOI: 10.1016/0197-4556(94)00046-8
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Catharsis and empowerment through group claywork with incest survivors

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“…The art therapy literature documents the use of clay as an excellent medium that allows incest survivors to work through and begin to release their feelings of anger. Supporting this view, Anderson (1995) concurs, "Clay can concretize feelings as well as thoughts…it could also become the focus for rage and siphoning off the repressed emotional overloads" (p. 415).…”
Section: Empowerment: Weekmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…The art therapy literature documents the use of clay as an excellent medium that allows incest survivors to work through and begin to release their feelings of anger. Supporting this view, Anderson (1995) concurs, "Clay can concretize feelings as well as thoughts…it could also become the focus for rage and siphoning off the repressed emotional overloads" (p. 415).…”
Section: Empowerment: Weekmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…First, the tactile sensations and malleability associated with clay are thought to help produce a nonverbal route to emotional expression. Second, the physical process of clay modeling is thought to activate an individual's creative impulses, particularly through the ability to transform a formless mass into a concrete and meaningful object (for more extensive theoretical discussions, see Anderson, 1995;Banker, 2008;Elkis-Abuhoff, Goldblatt, Gaydos, & Corrato, 2008;Henley, 2002;Or, 2010;Sholt & Gavron, 2006). To our knowledge, no RCTs have yet been performed to evaluate these and other claims regarding the therapeutic benefits of clay work.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…The themes of their artwork went beyond their illness and did not reflect just their struggles but also their fantasies and dreams (Kivnick and Erikson 1983). Art was also useful to access parts of the individual beyond his or her rational thinking and to bring these subconscious emotions to the surface (Anderson 1995), also known to artists as 'surrealism'. Creativity is an important skill in daily life because it is crucial in problem solving (Kivnick andErikson 1983, Smitskamp 1995).…”
Section: Expressionmentioning
confidence: 99%