Art Therapy

Art Helps People Live With Mental Illness

Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Arts, Mental Health, Rehabilitation, Mental Illness Stigma, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Arts Mental Health, Arts Therapy, Art Therapy, Art Mental Health, Healthy Living News

Being with so many like-minded people and having a sense of camaraderie are clearly important dimensions of the experience for these artists. It's being in a place without stigma, where people believe in themselves and their abilities.

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One Mom's Journey to Hope for Her Son with Autism

Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Creativity, Motherhood, Autism, Art, Inspiration, Mother's Day, Art Therapy, Fifty News, Writing, Parents News

McNary's son was given a prognosis so dire it left little room for hope. She captured her fear and worry in a large tableau. "That painting was never meant to be displayed. It's too raw," she said.

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The Healing Power of Performing Arts

Dr. Jingduan Yang | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Mental Health, Personal Health, Arts Health, Healing Arts, Arts and Health, Arts for Health, Art Therapy, Music and Health, Dr. Jingduan Yang, Music Health, Chinese Medicine, Color Therapy, Healthy Living News

In order to promote good health and natural healing, you might want to take some time to go to performances with soothing and beautiful music and colors.

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Watch Kate Middleton Make Art!

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Kate Middleton Charity, The Art Room, Catherine Middleton, Royal Family, Prince William, Kate Middleton Art Patron, Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Art Therapy, UK Arts, The Art Room Kate Middleton, Video, Arts News

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, expressed her creative side today during a visit to the Art Room, a charity organization which practices art...

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Connecting With Alzheimer's Patients -- Even in the Latest Stages of the Disease

Marie Marley | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Art, Alzheimer's Association, Dementia, Alzheimer's Dementia, Alzheimer's Care, Art Therapy, Alzheimer's, Art Therapy Programs, Alzheimer's Stages, Healthy Living News

There are four activities that can typically reach persons at all stages of Alzheimer's disease. Being visited by a child is one of them, as young Max discovered. Others include having a visit from a pet, listening to or playing music and observing or creating artwork.

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Can Art Scientifically Help Traumatized Soldiers?

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Music Therapy, Ptsd, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Art Therapy, Walter Reed Medical Center, National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Veteran Art Therapy, Arts News

Making art has been a longtime coping mechanism for pain, depression and heartbreak, but now art therapy may finally gain scientific validation as a c...

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The Cat That Became My Father and How It Healed Me

Katherine Dunn | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Art That Heals, Grief, Healing Art, Grieving Process, Dealing With Grief, Art Coping, Grieving Loss, Coping With Grief, Art Therapy, Arts News

While in the thick of grieving my father's death, I found my art making process of working intuitively -- without boundaries, patterns or sketches to dictate to me -- both a comfort and an eye opener.

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Art for Life's Sake

John M. Eger | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: American for the Arts, Sydney, The Foundation for Art and Health, Art and Longevity, Healing at Dartmouth, Art Therapy, Dr. James Aw, Arts for the Aging, Amy Gorman, Arts News

As we learn more about longevity and the important role the arts play in our lives, we are increasingly finding the arts make us live longer.

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The Art of Healing Our Wounded U.S. Veterans

2morrowknight | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Wounded Veterans, Women, Art, Artistic, U.S. Military, Charity, Nonprofit, Higher Ground, Art Therapy, Making a Difference, Beyond the Battlefield, Impact News

Russell Simmons once said, "Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

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Craft It Out

Deborah Lynn, M.D. | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Crafting, Crafts, Child Psychology, Play, Kids Activities, Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, Parenting Advice, Parents News

Creating, crafting something that comes from our own hands, ignites creation within, defeating the self-attack that is grabbing hold. Something Prozac and Celexa just can't do.

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10 Emerging Artists To Watch

Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Art Institute of Chicago, Art, Master of Fine Arts, Graduates, Saic, Mfa, Chicago, Sculpture, Slideshow, Students, Art Therapy, Emerging Artists, Arts News

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is considered one of the top three graduate arts programs in the country and offers a Master of Fine...

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Art Exhibit Offers 'Urban Therapy' For Over-Stimulated NYers

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Pedro Reyes, Art Therapy, Art, Urban Therapy, Brooklyn, Pedro Reyes Artist, Sanatorium, New York News

NEW YORK — Noise never sleeps in the city. Streets are choked with vehicles that produce a near constant din of rumbling engines. Parks are ofte...

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Art: Healing Us Through The Trauma Of War

Leila Levinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Art Therapy, Military PTSD, Art, Veterans PTSD, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress, Military Families, PTSD Treatment, Healthy Living Mind, Healthy Living News

Si does not believe that his art has diminished his trauma. He believes it has sustained him, helped to keep him alive.

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Using Your Hands To Lift Your Heart

Darryle Pollack | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Art Therapy, Creativity Recovery Creativity Resilience, Creativity Coping, Art Resilience, Inspiration, Art Coping, Art Recovery, Healthy Living News

As a mother facing a grim cancer prognosis and a year of treatment, my brain was on constant code red. Until I learned that the answer was not in my head but in my hands.

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Art Therapy: Art Displayed In New Children's Hospital Made By Kids

Posted 05.25.2011

Art is not only creative, but also a therapeutic process. When the new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital opened earlier this year in Grand Rapids, Michi...

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After Earthquake, Children's Resilience Revealed in Play

Sarah Ryley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Plas Timoun, Haiti Earthquake, Art Therapy, Haitian Children, Haiti, World News

These children, most living in rooms and tents on the campus of Hopital Adventiste d'Haiti, don't seem like they had just six months ago witnessed the world crash down around them.

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CMBM's Drawing Exercise Resonates in Haiti

James S. Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Haiti, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Aid, Drawing, Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Posttraumatic Stress, Ptsd, Trauma, Grief, Healing, Healthy Living News

Originally posted on my blog, www.jamesgordonmd.com/healingourselves We move during the rest of our week in Haiti from one group of health profession...

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Healing Kids in Haiti Pt. 2

James S. Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mind-Body Connection, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Therapy, Mind.Body.Soul, Haiti Earthquake, Art Therapy, Humanitarian Aid, Haiti, Healthy Living News

We talk in today's workshop with Haitian kids at the hospital, do drawings, and talk more about what they've drawn. My French is emerging from the cav...

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Art Therapy for Alzheimer's: "I Remember Better When I Paint"

Rosalia Gitau | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Art, Eric Ellena Rosalia Gitau, I Remember Better When I Paint, Arts, Art Therapy, Paint, Alzheimer's, Painting Therapy, Painting, Berna Huebner, Video, Healthy Living News

The myth about Alzheimer's is that it is a veritable death sentence. But as the filmmakers demonstrate, the creative arts can reunite even a late stage Alzheimer's sufferer with parts of his/her former self.

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Autistic Artist Stephen Wiltshire Draws NYC From Memory

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dubai, Stephen Wiltshire, Jerusalem, Rome, Hong Kong, Art Therapy, Photographic Memory, Painting, New York City, Frankfurt, London, Art, Madrid, Drawing, Autism, Tokyo, Impact News

Stephen Wiltshire was mute when he was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of three. He began communicating through his drawings after being sent ...

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Artist Tim Burke Recycles Detroit History, And Rescues Himself (PHOTOS)

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Historical Artifacts, Slideshows, Detroit Artists, The Unconscious, Comerica Park, Urban Art, Steve Buscemi, Yves Tanguy, Recycling, Environmental Art, Art Therapy, Lucy Thurman YWCA, Heidelberg Street, Industrial Art, Diane Tucker, The Inner Life, Detroit Landmarks, Eco-Friendly Art, Dreams in Art, Green Living, Alcoholism, Ford Field, Tim Burke, Slideshow, Recycled Art, Careers, Hudson?S Department Store Implosion, Reuse of Refuse, Detroit Industrial Gallery, Faces in the Hood, Tyree Guyton, Surrealism, Detroit Institute of Arts, Joan Miro, No Impact Week, Dreams, Outsider Art, Trash Art, F-15 Fighter Jets, 1967 Detroit Riots, Pablo Picasso, Addiction & Recovery, Motor City Artists, The Heidelberg Project, Small Business, Wayne State University, Photo Galleries, Triumph, Green News

Detroiter Tim Burke calls himself an artist, a scavenger, and a non-practicing alcoholic. Devoted to the reuse of refuse, the 40-something sculptor us...

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Dear President-Elect Obama, Could We Please Have a Ministry of Culture like Every Other Country in the World?

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bo Derek, Pbs, Tv Series, Npr, Happy Meals, Opera, Research and Development, NYU Film School, Ministry of Culture, Film, Nea, Art Therapy, Kennedy Center, HuffPost Election Reaction, Entertainament, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Politics News

We need to invest in multi-dimensional human beings. We need to show that the country cares about culture.

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