Editor's Note from Karen Adler: Art therapy works as both art AND therapy, enabling people to access their true selves which is often hidden way down deep inside and covered over by years of denying the self.

 

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by Karen Stabley, MCAT, ATR, BC,
ATH Co-Editor of Art & Art Therapy

One of my younger clients – a twelve year old boy – lost his mother last year in a fatal car accident. She was killed out of state while visiting friends. I have been working with Cam to help him express his feeling related to this tragic loss. Cam has been painting in the art therapy sessions, as well as on his own to express the anger, sadness and confusion he feels, related to this loss...

Editor's Note from Karen Stabley: It never ceases to amaze me just how much is revealed in our art work. Everything we need to begin healing is inside of us. Sometimes it just takes someone on the outside to help us find those answers.

 

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Editor´s Note from Karen Stabley: This tutorial goes through all the steps and materials required to make beautiful little fairies. Dollar store fairies are useful in therapy with clients, but they are also fun to make and can be as fabulous as your client or child's imagination! The ideal age for making fairies is 8-10 and that aged child can do most of the steps themselves. Everything needed to make the fairies can be purchased inexpensively at the dollar store. Have fun and enjoy!

 

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Editor's Note from Karen Adler: One of the most exciting things happening in the world of mental health today is the questioning of the validity of diagnoses of psychosis.  This questioning - and a great deal of research...

 

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Editor's Note from Karen Adler: Frank Warren isn't an artist or a therapist but he's a magic man when it comes to the art of communication and what makes people well. Frank is the founder of PostSecret.com where strangers mail their secrets to him on postcards. At the end of his talk, he shares that he wasn't aware of his unconscious motivation of dealing with and healing from some of the secrets of his own past when he came up with his idea and so brilliantly implemented it.

 

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by Rebecca Countess

Come with me.  I want to take you to the top of a mountain where the evergreen trees are tall and narrow and there is still a crunchy layer of thin, but loosely packed snow.  The sun is shining overhead and you breathe deeply.  The air is crisp and cool and you smell damp wood and pine needles. You can see little buds beginning to grow with their tight, snug layers and mysterious contents.

 

Editor's Note from Karen Stabley: Guided imagery is a gentle but effective technique that directs and focuses the imagination. It can help access the subconscious through symbolic and challenging stories. As an art therapist, I often use guided imagery with my clients and for my own self growth.

 

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Editor's Note from Karen Adler: Medical art therapy with hospitalised children.

 

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Editor's Note from Karen Adler: From youtube: 'Young students discuss how mental disorders play a vital role in their artistic development.' It's worthwhile taking into account the difference between art therapy and art as therapy.

 

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Editor's Note from Karen Adler: This video from Clarity Way states that, 'When seeking to overcome a drug or alcohol addiction, art therapy can be an incredibly powerful tool. Regardless of what artistic skill level you may have, the process of creating art can have a number of benefits for someone struggling with addiction. Not only does the process of creating art provide healing, but examining and understanding the final created product can also provide deep insight.'

 

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from Artist-Perspectives.com

I revisit a number of themes in my paintings. Death, transcendence, impermanence, all of these come up in my works over and over, subtly or overtly. I use my paintings as a means to finding the invisible patterns all around us...

 

Editor’s Note: Felix Eddy's artwork emphasizes the figure in new and thoughtful ways. Her artwork lens towards thematic references on Death, Transcendence and Alchemy. Hidden messages and symbolism are just the beginning to Felix Eddy's work...

 

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by Karen Adler, ATH Asst. Editor of Arts & Art Therapy,
Diploma Transpersonal Art Therapy, Grad Dip Material Anthropology

Stroud is a pretty little town nestled peacefully in the Karuah Valley, NSW. The verdant green and rolling hills surrounding Stroud are more reminiscent of England than of the wide brown land of Dorothea Mackellars’ poem, My Country**. Maryjane O’Dell’s house and garden in the main street of Stroud combines the quaintness of a cottage garden and a home lovingly and skillfully restored, with a quirky sense of humour. The result is a delight for the senses...

 

Editor's Note from Karen Adler: Maryjane O'Dell would not consider herself to be an artist but the fact is that she is one. Her home, Ye Olde Bakehouse, in Stroud, Australia is one of those places where the creativity of the owner jumps out at you. Her joy in making and constructing things is evident everywhere you look and the result is a delight for the senses.

 

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Editor's Note from Karen Adler: This youtube clip states that, "Karin used art therapy to deal with her eating disorder. Now she makes spoon pendants and sees the beauty that can be created out of mistakes."

 

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