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Center For The Creative Arts Therapies' mission is to provide therapeutic
services, professional training, research, and public education about
the Creative Arts Therapies. |
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The process of making art is a metaphor for life itself, in that as
the artist works she has absolute power to change the image. She can
add color, shade, darken or highlight. If she chooses she can paint
over the piece and start again. This in itself is an allegory of life.
It can be reworked, if and when the individual decides to change.
The patient often does not believe that she has such power over the
course of her own life. In these instances the doing of art becomes
an introduction into free will and the power of choice and creation.
Images empower.
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1997, p. 85). |
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Why use creativity for healing?
The Creative
Arts for healing can be traced back to antiquity where the shaman
offered creative resources that facilitated individual transformation
as well as healing for the community.
Participation
in the creative process provides a pathway for the body, soul, and
spirit to seek balance and integration. It partakes of verbal, non-verbal,
and meta-verbal communication for the expression of thoughts, feelings,
inspirations, and new experiences.
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