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The Healing Art of Clay Therapy by Patricia Sherwood

The Healing Art of Clay Therapy Patricia Sherwood ebook
ISBN: 0864316917, 9780864316912
Publisher: Acer Press
Format: pdf
Page: 128

Art therapy integrates the fields of art, counseling, and psychology. In each of these cases, art therapy facilitates healing and growth. That is what a massage therapist does. The use of visual expression for healing has been used for thousands of years. A therapist may see the art creating process itself as healing, may see the finished art product(s) as tools for diagnosis and treatment, or both. Something Art Therapist have know for a long time. Family members communicate with each other silently by sharing pieces of modeling clay. *In order to be accepted into graduate school for art therapy, a school typically requires 18 credits of art (diversity in studio subjects: clay, drawing, painting), and 12 credits of psychology (Intro. 2011, 2012, 2013; Contempo: Pushing the Limit on Art- Lighthouse Art Center, Jupiter, FL – 2011; Artistic Visions II- the Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL- May 2012; Clay, Glass, Metal, Stone Gallery, Lake Worth, FL – Permanant exhibiting artist- 2012; Florida Craftsmen Members Exhibition-Lighthouse Arts Center, Tequesta A dream that she's following all these years by providing therapeutic healing services and bringing her Healing Arts to those in need. The Schlifer Clinic have worked with a professional artist (Susan Low-Beer) and an art therapist (Suzanne Thomson) in the studios of the Gardiner Museum, to transform their pain and to heal through the eary power of clay. Working together, they create a house that symbolizes an effort to improve their relationships. And yet the most important function of art is its power to heal. It wasn't until the as well as the body. Some examples of art that require muscle strength are working with clay (pounding and rolling) or standing at an easel and painting to music. To help her work through a severe bout of depresssion, an art therapist at her hospital introduced Anne to sculpture. Am a massage therapist and massage therapy instructor.” I answer this way because during my journey as a massage therapist I have discovered that those are things I do with the passion that feeds me just as an artist's creative spirit is fed by music, painting, sculpting, etc. Just think of having some clay and kneading that clay and molding that clay from its original form into something completely different. To Psychology, Cognitive or Social Development, Abnormal Psychology, and sometimes Theories of Personality). The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) defines art therapy as: “Employing the creative process of art-making to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well . Healing can blossom from acrylic, oil, watercolors, graphite, charcoal, and clay.