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Descriptive information about the study, whether it gave examples of
patient's work, techniques, advice or discussed experiences or theories;
Diagnoses of the patient group;
Theory of the study: psychotherapeutic, psychoanalytic, diagnostic or
assessment, environmental, social or psychosomatic;
Author's personal explanation of how art promotes therapeutic
change: as an illustration or signpost for the therapist, as innately
curative, as a vehicle for insight for the patient, as a vehicle for transfer of
learning, as an environment, or for communication.
Benefit to the patients: expression of feelings, communication, symptom
relief or healing, developmental or social, body awareness, through
relationship.
The purpose of this analysis was to explore how the collected observations of these
authors' experiences of the effect of art in therapy varied with the conditions of therapy
and the diagnosis; that is, how consistent the effect was.
Analysis of 253 impressionistic and theoretical papers according to their theories of the
value of art in therapy. Table 1
D 103
I
A
G
all
studies
freq %
sign
posts
freq %
self
healing
freq %
group
interact'n
freq %
53
insight
freq %
transfer
of skill
freq %
communi
cation
freq %
1 15 6 6 6.5 1 3 1 5 2 14 1 5.6 3 21 1 2
2 24 9.5 14 15 1 3 1 5 0 0 3 17 1 7 4 7
no
explanation
freq %
103 Diagnostic group:
1 Schizophrenic; 2 Traumatic stress/sex abuse; 3 Substance abuse; 4 Psychotic; 5
Alzheimer's/Dementia/Brain Damage; 6 Emotional disorder; 7 Depression; 8 Conduct Disorder; 9 Normal;
10 Retarded; 11 Undifferentiated psychiatric patients; 12 Sex Abnormalities/Abusers.