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Art Therapy - Therapeutic Uses Of Art - Healing With Creative Process
Information and resources on art therapy. Art and the creative process in the making of art has been found to be healing and uplifting. Art therapy is the therapeutic use of art making.
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Renoir: Portrait Of Perseverance - Artist Renoir Had Crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis
Renoir battled rheumatoid arthritis while continuing to create masterpieces.
Creative Thinking: Put Yourself In A Creative State Of Mind
We all have some level of creativity within us. As with other activities, you can teach yourself to be more creative. Sometimes creative thinking requires us to look at things from new perspectives. Learn to unleash your inventive genius by thinking backwards. Here is an appropriate acronym containing five steps to creative thinking -- S A E D I -- that's IDEAS backwards!
Renewing Creative Energy: Tips To Help You Get Over Mental Blocks
Tips to help get over some common mental blocks. How to get over boredom, repetition and those blank page blues.
Dreamwork And Art Therapy
This is a dreamwork and art therapy activity that you can use among your friends or with your students. It encourages play and creativity and at the same time may help unlock the mysteries of dreams that confuse you.
How Art Heals: Mind-Body Physiology
How does art heal? Scientific studies tell us that art heals by changing a person's physiology and attitude. The body's physiology changes from one of stress to one of deep relaxation, from one of fear to one of creativity and inspiration, from ArtasHealing.org
Artists with Rheumatoid Arthritis Create Beauty Amid Pain
Renowned painters such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Raoul Dufy produced major works of art while suffering from the painful and crippling effects of rheumatoid arthritis, from PersonalMd.
Stability Vs. Creativity by PaulaHOST
Bipolar disorder and creativity very much go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, many individuals feel that their creativity is lessened or even negated by medications and stability. However, this is not necessarily true.
Art and Arthritis By Roderick Jamer
A tale of beauty (art) and the beast (arthritis), from The Arthritis Society.
The Art of Healing By Beth Baker
The visual and performing arts take on a bigger role in patient recovery, from The Washington Post.
The American Art Therapy Association Homepage
The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) is a national association dedicated to the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life enhancing.
Healing And The Arts
Healing and the Arts is an innovative program exploring the ways in which the arts and humanities can support the process of healing, from Dartmouth College.
Accomplishments & Achievements
A collection of art, writing and works of those who are handicapped, disAbled and chronically ill and their beloved caregivers, from AnA.
