The arts in theraphy

Photography as a Measure of Constricted Construing: The Experience of Depression Through a Camera

“…Their results indicated that the group being interviewed with photographs disclosed more personal information than a control group. These results support the suggestion that the use of art and photo therapy allows clients to express feelings and experiences more fully than with verbal communication alone (McNiff, 1981).…”

Chapter 10. Perspectives on Treatment, Alliance and Narratives Concerning Substance Use-Related Dependency

“…For example, the expressive therapies using art techniques can be important. Of course, these can also be combined with narrative strategies (McNiff, 1981;Schneier, 1989).…”

Creativity and dissociation. Dance/movement therapy interventions for the treatment of compartmentalized dissociation

“…Although creativity may need both (Meekums, 2002), delving into the unknown of improvisation with people who have already experience their own life as internally chaotic may be too overwhelming. Following McNiff (1981), emphasis, as much as the person needs to let go of control and perfectionism to increase creativity, high emotional disturbance and chaotic openness produces insecurity and stress and is ultimately non-productive. The toleration of spontaneity and formlessness are at the same time the means and the content of much of the creative work with dissociative clients.…”