Project begins to shift towards art therapy

After a half-month trip to Europe in August, my own practical experience made me realize that art has a really powerful effect on emotions.

In the Vatican, I saw the stately churches, and the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Raphael their sculptures and paintings make you really start to believe in the compassion of Jesus for the suffering of mankind.

In Gaudi's architecture in Barcelona, his use of lines, light, and shadow would make humans forget their worries and feel healed by the beauty of the moment, and after I came back home, I was even more convinced to do this topic and start looking for information to begin to understand the theory of art therapy systematically.

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I have chosen two books on art therapy to read at the moment.

One is The Art Therapy Sourcebook by Cathy Malchiodi, which is more of a guide for readers seeking relief through art therapy and practitioners wishing to use the techniques contained in the book to help others and contains valuable information on how to create an environment conducive to creativity and how to interpret art.

Another book is Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff.

In this book, McNiff discusses the creative process and the creative spirit that each person possesses, exploring how this spirit and process can be used to discover creative solutions to life's problems.

 

I am still in the process of reading these two books as art therapy is a discipline that encompasses both psychology and art, and I think I need to take it more seriously, and I believe I will be better inspired for my intervention after I finish reading these books.