The Healing Arts

Art goes beyond the mere act of rubbing color onto canvas, or scribbling words onto blank pages, it is a form of expression that provides a physical manifestation of emotional perspective. A recent concept erected onto this emotional foundation has some discovering that art can not only help people express their true feelings while dealing with personal problems, but that the very act of creativity can literally be a healing process. The American Cancer Society supports the belief that art therapy can actually help cancer patients cope with their emotions.

Art therapy is a method of treatment by means of artistic creativity. Art therapy is one of the most flexible and, at the same time, deepest in the arsenal of methods used by psychologists and psychotherapists. 




When you drawing, sculpting, or engaging in a literary form to describe a problem or a mood, you seem to get a coded message from yourself, from your own subconscious. The method of art therapy can be attributed to the most ancient and natural forms of the correction of emotional states, which many people use on their own - to remove the accumulated mental stress, relax and concentrate.