Mental health art – it can also That’s a fact, it’s a tremendous source of happiness for a great many people, art isn’t the source of the greatest happiness in everyone’s life. Given an ordinary belief that madness and creativity are linked, it’s surely worth noting that whether mental illness contributes to art, art certainly can contribute to mental health. Which also addresses the human potential to live well, all of this has vast implications for how we can build satisfying lives for ourselves and our children and on p of that suggests that there ought to be a public mental health agenda that isn’t limited to the treatment of mental illnesses. By this he means that art somehow becomes imbued with meanings that go well beyond the surface of the artistic product. Normally, his example is Warhol’s Brillo Box or Campbell soup cans, that somehow convey a significance way beyond their visual surface. Arthur Danto a philosopher and art critic refers to the transcendent capacity of art as the transfiguration of the commonplace. Art is one transcendent source experience, not only one but a very important one.

Everyone who appreciates some sort of art experiences through it something powerful, significant, and elevating, quite a few of us, ofcourse, are not captured by Pop art.

It can also so inarticulate.

Through art, people can shape their own identity. Art can And so it’s also ‘self creation’, Art isn’t just self expression. Through the arts people can find voices to express dimensions of self usually left in silence. Just think for a moment. Laney, Thank you for introducing me to Accelerated Resolution Therapy, that you used successfully as an ol for helping to cope with a severe case of claustrophobia. On a recent trip to Europe, as an example, Know what guys, I was able to experience the flight, massive summer crowds, elevators, and identical confined spaces without even a twinge of anxiety. It is a giant step.

As clinicians we seek to facilitate change.

We identify strengths, pair them with challenges, and encourage our clients to invest in themselves.

Change is a frightening proposition frequently met with disabling defense mechanisms and resistance. It should take courage, strength, and conviction to let go, trust, and change. ART is a transformative intervention that allows the client to see a significant problem so that is safe, gives them a choice in determining a solution and allows them to leave any session empowered. There’s more info about it on this site. Nearly any clinician must know ART!

That I am using ART, the results are astounding, In the two years.

For them, art can have a great healing impact, a fact I have recently written about in other posts.

Whenever shaping of self, connections with people and a culture, and the potential for transcendent experience apply both to people without mental disorders and those with mental disorders, the contributions that art can make to psychological wellbeing via enjoyment, immersion, development of skill, revelation and expression of emotion. Art can be a healing force for people with mental disorders, including people with dementia, and art can contribute to psychological wellbeing of people regardless of whether they have a mental disorder or not. There’re two dimensions to this. Whenever living well involves feeling good about life, having something to do that you care very much about that you immerse yourself in it, becoming good enough at something to take some pride in it, having people in your lifespan whom you care about and who care about you, and feeling connected with something that takes you beyond yourself just like your family, your community, your work, and so forth, in simple terms.

In his recent book, Flourish, Martin Seligman often regarded as the father of positive psychology maintains that for the most part there’re five critical elements of psychological ‘well being’, positive emotion, engagement, accomplishment, positive relationships, and meaning.

Much of the time spent working at art is practice rather than creative discovery, and practice, for sure, is essential for building skill, that is itself a source of great satisfaction.

Time seems to disappear, to be suspended. While spending hours at a time playing, writing, painting, dancing, and so forth, they also immerse themselves in it. Usually, most obviously. Not always maybe. I’m sure it sounds familiar. It’s, or at least can be, a source of important friendships. While doing art has meaning not merely for the individual doing it, furthermore for a society, for a culture. It’s clear, I believe, that art can provide every of these elements of well being.