Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

Barbara Ganim

ISBN 10: 0609803166 / ISBN 13: 9780609803165

Published by Three Rivers Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609803166
• ISBN 13: 9780609803165
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Artists have always known intuitively what science is just beginning to discover: that creating a visual image through any medium can produce physical and emotional benefits for both the creator as well as those who view it. Most important, you don't need to think of yourself as an artist or even believe you have any "talent" to tap into the healing powers of art.
        
In this remarkable testament to the power of creativity, Barbara Ganim shows step-by-step how to use art to heal body, mind, and spirit. By using guided meditation and artistic techniques, you can gain insight and clarity into depression, anxiety, rage, and even illnesses, including cancer, arthritis, and AIDS.
        
At once inspirational and instructive, Art and Healing will teach you how to connect with negative, painful, and even repressed emotions, and then express them through drawing, painting, sculpture, or collage. Releasing these feelings through the creative process frees up the immune system and clears the mind, allowing the body to fight off disease and begin to heal emotional wounds. Filled with actual stories from those who have triumphed over adversity and with more than a hundred different pieces of artwork created using this groundbreaking method, Art and Healing is sure to provide the tools needed for healing body and spirit.

About the Author

Barbara Ganim is director of the Institute for the Expressive Arts and on the faculty of the Holistic Counseling graduate program at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. She is the coauthor of Visual Journaling: Going Deeper Than Words to Give Voice to Your Soul.