Arts Psychotherapy
The use of art in therapy
Arts psychotherapistts provide a secure environment and make available a variety of art materials. Patients may choose to produce pictures of three-dimensional work in their choice of medium e.g; Paint, pen and clay. All art work is stored securely and confidentialy maintained.
The therapeutic process
The work of the art psychotherpaist is based on psychoanalytic theory. Patients are invited to talk about their dificulties and personal situation. Art making can assist free association enabling thoughts and ideas to spontaneously arise, the content of which is used on the therapeutic process. Aesthetic standards are of little importance rather the expresssion and exploration of unconcious feelings and symbolic communication that the art-making engenders. The therapist's role is to enable the patient to develop insight and make connections between their inner world and outer reality. The therapeutic relationship and setting also allows for a wider understanding of patterns of relating.
Drama Psychotherapy
The use of drama in therapy
Drama psychotherapists provide a secure environment in which patients may make use of drama processes such as story making and use of objects and cards for projective work, (with guidance from the therapist). This means of free association enables thoughts and ideas to arise spantaneously. Enactment and role-play may also be used to ilustrate situations and explore how they are perceived. Texts or stories provide structure and appropriate distance for exploration to take place.
The therapeutic process
The work of a drama psychotherapist is based on pasychoanalytic theory. Patients are invited to talk about their difficulties and personal situation. The symbolic process in enactment ofthe drama and projective work gives acces to emotions and conflicts which may have been repressed enabling thoughts and ideas to arise spontaneously.
Aesthetic standards are of little importance rather the expression and exploration of unconcious feelings and communication that the drama making engenders. The therapeutic relationship and setting also allows for a wider unterstanding of patterns of relating. An integral part of drama psychotherapy is group work, where personal experiences and relationship issues can be relived and reviewed in a symbolic and metaphirical way.
Music Psychotherapy
Music Therapy
Music therapy is the use of predominantly improvised music to fulfil therapeutic aims for the patient. It provides a framework for the building of a mutual relationship between patient and therapist. The music therapist wil comunicate with the patient finding the music idiom with which to reach, support and develop whatever potential there is. The growing relationship enables changes to occur, both in the condition of the patient and in the formthe therapy takes. By using skilled and creative musicianship in a clinical setting, the therapists seeks to establish and interaction-a shared musical experience leading to the pursuit of therapeutic goals. Thesse goals are determined by the therapist's understanding of the patient's pathology and personal needs, in liason with other members of the therapeutic team.
Dance Movement Therapy
Dance Movement Therapy
Dance movement therapy is the use of expressive movement and dance as a medium through which the individual can engage creatively in a process of personal intergration and growth. It is founded on the principle that movement reflects an individual's pattern of thinking and feeling. Throughacknowledging and supporting the present movements of the patient the therapist encourages development and intergration of new, more adaptive movement patterns together with the emotianal experiences that accompany such changes.
Through movement and dance each persons inner world becomes tangible; individuals share much of their personal symmbolism and in dancing together relationships become visible. The dance movement therapist creates a holding environment in which feelings can be safely expressed acknowledged and communicated.