The Struggle to Feel Real: Creation, Destruction and Identity Formation in an Adolescent Art Therapy Process

by Amy Allan

Research for this paper is based on a retrospective analysis of the artwork and therapeutic process of an adolescent boy. The client's art therapy process has been presented as a poetic narrative which explores the creative and destructive elements of adolescent identity formation.

2001Amy AllanJuly 1, 2016adolescent, retrospective, psychodynamic, child development, rite of passage, poetry, identity, male

Crossing the Threshold: Rites of Passage, Art Therapy, and the Process of Change

by Gail Joy

This thesis examines change in the treatment of addictions using an art therapy process, relating it metaphorically to the process of epistemological and ontological change in rites of passage.

2001Gail JoyJuly 1, 2016addiction, metaphor, epistomology, ontology, rite of passage, ritual, culture, model of change, case study, male

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