Cathy Malchiodi which I’ve spoken about a number of times here, writes a review of the benefits of drawing on symptoms of trauma. She lists the following partial benefits: 1) Drawing taps implicit memory. Trauma and drawing are largely sensory experiences; drawing pictures about aspects of « what happened » prompts sensory memories of traumatic events. 2) Drawing actively [...]
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An arts based exploration of DID
Kim Noble is an UK based artist diagnosed with DID (dissociative identity disorder). DID was once known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Kim was offered art therapy and discovered painting. For the past four years she has been painting daily. She is considered an ‘outsider artist’, a patient who paints. She feels slighted by this label and would like to [...]
Trauma focused CBT art therapy
I was recently reading Pifalo, T. (2007). Jogging the cogs: Trauma-focused art therapy and CBT with sexually abused children, Art Therapy:Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 24(4), 170-75; the author articulates the benefits of a visual approach to therapy rather well. Pifalo writes: « Because of the visual nature of traumatic memories, an image-based therapy [...]
Trauma et dessins d’enfants
Je viens de découvrir le récent blogue d’une collègue art thérapeute qui écrit de façon prolifique (livres) . Figure proéminente de l’art thérapie aux États-Unis elle s’est intéressée aux enfants, à la technologie, à l’art thérapie dans les milieux hospitaliers (medical art therapy) et semble s’être spécialisée récemment. Elle fait de la recherche sur le [...]
