The Compassionate Arts Psychotherapy Program: Benefits of a Compassionate Arts Media Continuum

Hass-Cohen, Noah; Bokoch, Rebecca; Fowler, Grace

doi:10.1080/07421656.2022.2100690

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“…As her art therapist, I offered different art materials and interventions to actively search for her authentic spark, mainly when I felt emptiness and despair. However, I soon realized the conventional materials I brought, although of high quality [56], did not fit their purpose and created frustration and self-criticism instead of creativity and self-discovery [57]. Compared to the coloring pages and markers, watercolors were too uncontrollable and anxiety provoking for Leah, consistent with the theoretical literature regarding annihilation anxieties among those experiencing psychosis [58].…”

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Art Therapy during COVID-19 with a Deaf Client Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: A Case Report

Shalev

2023

OBM Integr Complement Med

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This case report explores the shifts in therapeutic power relations during the COVID-19 pandemic between an art therapist and her Deaf client diagnosed with schizophrenia. A therapeutic journey of two and a half years is described, accompanied by examples of the client's artwork. This case report demonstrates how a shared reality in times of global crisis enabled the rethinking of therapeutic power relations and the way art was used to shift these dynamics. The art therapist's ability to use her shared reality experience to reposition herself to facilitate the therapeutic relationship is discussed.

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confidence: 64%