Talk:Art therapy/Archive 1

Therapeutic
The terms expressive arts therapy and art therapy are different disciplines. Expressive therapy is another term used for expressive arts therapy and is on Wikipedia. —Precedingunsigned comment added by Cmalch (talk •contribs) 23:06, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Therapeutic use of the expressive arts is a bit larger than the article suggests. The term art therapy has been adopted by professional art therapists after artists working in schools and hospitals began studying the health benefits of self-expression. The use of art as therapy is much older and more widely applied.

Every artist engages in a therapeutic process. Regardless of the medium, the process of creating a work of self expression moves energy in ways that support healing and growth. Artists have always shared the role of promoting and maintaining community health. Art is deeply part of what makes us human and what makes us successful in evolutionary terms. But art can also have specific effects on planetary (environmental) energies. The feng shui practice is in this category. A feng shui specialist manipulates objects and their relationships in order to tune energies that Western-trained healers don't recognize. At this level a healer uses art to search out wounds and disruptions in environmental energies and makes adjustments that benefit our relationship with the planet.

The use of art to support healing is probably as old as anything we can define as "human". We know how to do it. If our development is typical, we know how to make all the basic line elements of art by age five. We place our psychic energy into every piece of art we make, nomatter how simple. Other people can experience our energy without any training, without being able to discuss or define the experience, and with full benefit because what we know consciously is only a small part of our makeup. Our art contains more than ideas or beliefs. When someone experiences an artifact we have made--a dance, a song, a sculpture--his or her own energy flows into it and through it and is shaped by it. Their energy encounters our own because our artifact stamps it with the impression we have left. In psychic terms it works something like the groove on a phonograph record--their energy takes on our vibration. In this way very deep and beneficial interpersonal connections are forged and maintained through the arts. The arts demonstrate the communal aspects of human nature.

A skilled artist can make art that helps you heal, the true meaning of "art medicine". A very special artist can make art that helps heal the planet with the widest positive effects on human wellness. All these things happen simultaneously: our art is personal, communal, and global at the same time. The best definition of art therapy will lead us to recognize our inseperableness from the world around us.Trmcnamara 21:07, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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