What is it that makes art therapy effective? Using art, we communicate with a different part of you than we would with words. The left and right hemisphere of the brain specialise in verbal and visual brain function. Implicit memories (memory excluded from consciousness) are sensory , NOT verbal. They are stored in the right… Continue reading The Visual and Verbal Brain Function
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Like blind people touching an elephant
At art remedy, depending on how our first session together unfolds, we may hold off using art as a theraputic intervention right away, delaying it until the second or third session. This is because it’s important we don’t rush the process. Much like the Chinese idiom 盲人摸象 demonstrates. The idiom refers to only having a… Continue reading Like blind people touching an elephant