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The Healing Art of Clay Therapy by Patricia Sherwood

The Healing Art of Clay Therapy Patricia Sherwood ebook
Page: 128
Publisher: Acer Press
ISBN: 0864316917, 9780864316912
Format: pdf

It was very kind of her to share what being an art therapist entails and her view of how it a tool for healing. Mary Jo, tell us about yourself and how you got involved in art therapy? That is what a massage therapist does. Many medical professionals have given art therapy the thumbs up as well, noting that patients who receive art therapy are less depressed, more relaxed, and more cooperative than patients who do not receive adjunct therapies. To delve deeper into the topic of the healing aspects of creativity I interviewed Mary Jo Zawalski, a passionate artist residing in New York who helps people through artistic expression and loves it. Patients are being encouraged to express their fears and hopes through drawing, journaling, storytelling, writing poetry, creating music, working with clay, and using other artistic mediums. Just think of having some clay and kneading that clay and molding that clay from its original form into something completely different. I've been into art since I could hold a crayon or clay without dropping it. Is there Evidence for the Healing Power of Art? Am a massage therapist and massage therapy instructor.” I answer this way because during my journey as a massage therapist I have discovered that those are things I do with the passion that feeds me just as an artist's creative spirit is fed by music, painting, sculpting, etc. Expressive therapies – sand play, dream work, art and clay creations, drama and narrative – are tools she feels to be central to the therapeutic challenge of individual change, healthy relationship building, and integrative healing. In art treatment, creation could start with an urge to produce a doodle or sketch, or with a selected feeling, dreams, memories or just a plain strategy.