ARTHIST 2AA3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Art Therapy, Sigmund Freud, Psychotherapy
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
Art Therapy?
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Art Therapy can be one or a combination of...:
Art as Therapy:
- Emphasis on the product
- Therapeutic value in process of creating the work
- The art experience is the therapy
Art in Therapy (or psychotherapy):
- Emphasis on process but
- Focus is more on verbal discussion and association to the image interpretation and
arriving at insight
- This is regulated by the government, you must be a registered psychotherapist
(Video) What to Expect in Art therapy
-You do’t eed skills or reatiit
-Art therapy is about the process of it
-Healing modality to create synergy in emotion, spirituality, mental etc
-Encourage you to experiment with mediums
-You use art to explore the variety of issues with illness
-Art making is already therapeutic, you may find a new depth of understanding; outlet for
feeling, positive coping skills, reducing symptoms of pain and anxiety in cancer patients
- Increases self-awareness and discovery, decreases stress and anxiety
Explore or examine thoughts
-Allows you to regain sense of control
Timeline Creation
Brief history of Art Therapy
- Randy M. Vick pioneer of art therapy
- Hybrid discipline of art and psychology
- influenced by 20th century intellect and social trends
- Evident throughout human therapy
From the Realms of Art
MacGregor 1989 – Discovery of the Art of the Insane
- Informs art therapists on processes
Medicine, Health, and Rehabilitation
- Hospitals are incubators for the field of AT
- AT allowed people who cant express verbally
- AIDS, Asthma, ADHD, addictions, burns, cancer, trauma
- The neuroscience shows that creativity helps us feel good (((evidence))).
Moral Treatment
We’e goe fro the th century where we looked at the insane from segmud freud, etc, to
then it became recognized that art is a tool of treatment.
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- Freud has thought about how drawing is an informed process
- Jeung was very interested in mendalas and drawing it everyday while he was in the
ward and learned a lot about AT
- I 4 British pioeer Adria Hill oied the ter Art Therap
Art and Childhood Development
- Cane (1951/1983); she was a teacher
- Kelloogg (1969)
- Lownefeld (1987); good book for understanding art and brain development in children,
ad likig it to Erikso’s theories
- Uhlin (1972/1984); he did a lot of work in mentally slow developed children
Psych Assessment and Research
Projection – when we do art we project things into our art and recognizing this projection and
working through it (i.e. symbols, colours, shapes).
20th cent. Projection art is used to evaluate children and diagnose them.
Stereotypes (come from post modern phase)
- Specific signed drawings
- Divine true meaning from the drawings
AT vs Psych
- More varied and expressive materials
- Making and viewing of art have inherent therapeutic potential for client
- De-emphasize formal verbal directives
- Role of clients as interpreters of their own work
- Improvise protocol of standardized assessments to suit a certain purpose
We are abandoning orthodox psychoanalytic approaches in favour of methods that emphasize
the expressive potential of the tasks and materials
Classical Period 1940-1970s
- No formal traiing
4 universally recognized writers
- Margaret Naumberg
o Founded Walden School
o Conceived dynamically orientated art therapy
o Saw art productions as symbolic communication
- Kramer
o Adapted Freud’s oepts ad taught art as therapy
o Talked aout the third had, here teaher helped the ith the art to
facilitate their goals
o From Germany
o Founded bulletin of Art Therapy (1961)
- Kwiatkoska
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Document Summary
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