ART THERAPY, what it is and what is its proposal

Presentation of a case: ‘The own space inside the shared space. Silence as an enabler of a work’

Authors

  • Miquel Izuel Currià Art therapist. Psychoanalyst. President of GREFART. President of the FEAPA (Spanish Federation of Professional Associations of Art Therapy) art therapist
  • Alícia Expósito Art therapist. Vice President of GREFART and President of ALTRART. Degree in Choreography and Dance Performance Techniques

Abstract

Art therapy is a discipline that has the integration and the emotional development like it object. That means a conception of the person who is able to create the reality, and also to link it at the same time since the adaptation of the reality to the own capacities of creation. The developed experiences of this integration because of the Art therapy, allow to understand how the artistic means that are supported by the development of the relationship with the art therapist, facilitates the process of change at the different circles where the person has the vital experience like for example education, health, communication and social integration. We are introducing a part of a case from a small girl with whom it did art therapy and where the silences and the artistic productions showed to be facilitators to allow her to create an own space at the sessions then also internal in her emotional and inside a shared space.

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Published

2013-07-01

Issue

No. 38 (2013): Summer 2013 (1st period)

Section

Educational Psychology and Counselling

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