Art Therapy with Interactive Viewing Will Bring Empathy Leading to Health and Care

Abstract

Integrative medicine (IM) has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. From the perspective of art therapy, there will be some changes in art in hospitals, medicine, medical practice and medical education. Authors have developed art in hospitals using masking tapes. Originally, hospitals and museums have a lot in common. There is professional in the museum, a curator which is from the Latin word curare, meaning care. Through interactive viewing, natural empathy would be obtained for the feelings and thinking of other people. Empathy would be a high-level "caring" in the clinical setting associated with stable logic and objectivity

Recent topics of complementary & alternative medicine (CAM) include music/art therapy and hospital art

“…5,6 For the current year, we have challenged a new area for art therapy, hospital art and rehabilitation using masking tape. [7][8][9] In this article, two topics concerning CAM will be presented. One is music/ art therapy for cancer patients, and another is hospital art.…”