Using Creative Arts in Trauma Therapy: The Neuroscience of Healing

Perryman, Kristi L.; Blisard, Paul; Moss, Rochelle

doi:10.17744/mehc.41.1.07

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“…Working with the arts has the potential for myriad forms of benefits. These include (among many other benefits) awareness raising, education, personal growth and enrichment (Matarasso, 1997), empowerment and agency (Clammer, 2015; Ware & Dunphy, 2020) and even improvements in health and well-being (Fancourt & Finn, 2019; Perryman et al, 2019). Many of the residents involved were delighted that a painting tradition from the mansions of the Shekhawati region had found its way to a village, elevating the latter’s status.…”

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Heritage Art with an Intent

Sabnani

Buser

2020

Journal of Heritage Management

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A collaborative research project called JAL explored the role and potential for the arts to support water security activities in Rajasthan. The intent was to learn about some of the challenges facing people in rural Rajasthan and to draw on the region’s heritage toward arts-led research, practice and thinking to help address critical water issues. One project that emerged from the fieldwork took its inspiration from the murals of Shekhawati and the ancient phad (painted scroll with stories) storytelling tradition of Rajasthan. It involved local artists who painted a wall with water stories in the village Jhakhoda. The artists also painted a scroll that a local storyteller could use to share with other villages. This article offers a report of the mural project, its process and outcome and the insights gained from a close engagement with the community in the village. The experiences signal the rich potential of collaboration with communities and across disciplines, as well as the role of the arts and artists in engaging with and addressing critical global challenges, such as water security.

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Section: Impact On the Residents And Artistsmentioning

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Heritage Art with an Intent

Sabnani

Buser

2020

Journal of Heritage Management

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“…Trauma-focused IRT art therapy emphasizes expression of memories as a way to help individuals expose painful memories and help to make sense of experiences by putting them into (new) narratives ( Malchiodi, 2020 ). Hopeful results were found in a case study by Perryman et al (2019) . The effect of the use of art therapy and the integration of right and left brain, was that the client was able to “feel ‘almost normal’ again and hopeful about life” ( Perryman et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…Hopeful results were found in a case study by Perryman et al (2019) . The effect of the use of art therapy and the integration of right and left brain, was that the client was able to “feel ‘almost normal’ again and hopeful about life” ( Perryman et al, 2019 ).…”

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Imagery Rehearsal Based Art Therapy: Treatment of Post-traumatic Nightmares in Art Therapy

Haeyen

Staal

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) is effective for trauma-related nightmares and is also a challenge to patients in finding access to their traumatic memories, because these are saved in non-verbal, visual, or audiovisual language. Art therapy (AT) is an experiential treatment that addresses images rather than words. This study investigates the possibility of an IRT-AT combination. Systematic literature review and field research was conducted, and the integration of theoretical and practice-based knowledge resulted in a framework for Imagery Rehearsal-based Art Therapy (IR-AT). The added value of AT in IRT appears to be more readily gaining access to traumatic experiences, living through feelings, and breaking through avoidance. Exposure and re-scripting take place more indirectly, experientially and sometimes in a playlike manner using art assignments and materials. In the artwork, imagination, play and fantasy offer creative space to stop the vicious circle of nightmares by changing theme, story line, ending, or any part of the dream into a more positive and acceptable one. IR-AT emerges as a promising method for treatment, and could be especially useful for patients who benefit least from verbal exposure techniques. This description of IR-AT offers a base for further research.

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“…It is therefore relevant to consider effective interventions to reduce psychological damage (Wethington et al, 2008). Art therapy is one of the possible mediations found helpful (Atkinson & Robson, 2012;Chilton, 2013;Dunphy, Mullane, & Jacobsson, n.d.;Hass-Cohen, Bokoch, Findlay, & Banford Witting, 2018;Haywood, 2012;Kapitan, 2014;Klorer, 2005;Malchiodi, 2003;Perryman, Blisard, & Moss, 2019;Rubin, 1984;Sideris, 2017;Slayton, D'Archer, & Kaplan, 2010;Steele, 2009;St Thomas & Johnson, 2007;van Westrhenen et al, 2017). Although there has been empirical research into art therapists' claims to its effectiveness in the more than 50 years of "theory and practice," critics still speak of a missing evidence base (Heenan, 2006).…”

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Exploring the Transformative Effects of Flow on Children’s Liminality and Trauma

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Sorin

Caltabiano

2020

Art/Research International

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The process of creating art seems to be a healing as much as an expressive practice for children. Not only are art activities recognized as a necessity for children’s cognitive development, but also as a voice to express the trauma of their distressing experiences. The following article is based on art making as an effective trauma intervention therapy, adding to previous knowledge of childhood trauma and liminality for teachers and health community services. In our diverse, fast changing, challenging times, we need to encourage reflecting and utilising social justice in professionalism to achieve lasting changes in society. Therefore, the authors investigated the concept of “liminality” (a phase of change, transition and transformation) as a framework for understanding how the process of art making soothes “childhood trauma.” Recent research has revealed that the beneficial effects of drawing are due to children entering a time and phase of liminality. Emotions and states such as despair, depression and fear, accompanied by intuitive knowledge, memory, resilience and wellness might be experienced. This leads to an integrative process: while children are drawing, they are completely engaged in a non-verbal activity which needs their total involvement, concentration, imagination and creativity. The healing effect of drawing while in the flow, which helps children with trauma, has been translated from research findings into a poem. This unique contribution to the literature on art therapy’s transformative effects summarizes the results of the above study.

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Using Creative Arts in Trauma Therapy: The Neuroscience of Healing

Cited by 29 publications

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Imagery Rehearsal Based Art Therapy: Treatment of Post-traumatic Nightmares in Art Therapy

Exploring the Transformative Effects of Flow on Children’s Liminality and Trauma

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