What is art therapy? While ‘arts’ therapy umbrellas a wider notion of healing through music or drama, ‘art’ therapy is a creative expression through visual art. While a simple way to look at the discipline is through the lens of of art as a therapy, another way involves analytic art therapy and art psychotherapy. The former stresses on the creation process of the art while analytic art therapy is based on the theories that come from analytical psychology or psychoanalysis. In analytic art therapy, focus in laid on the ideas that are transferred between the client and the therapist through art.

Source: Hindustan Times August 18, 2020 16:11 UTC