Application of Art Terapy

Abstract

Art is a state of mind, it represents an exit from the existing reality, it breaks with all kinds of imitation of reality and produces a new reality, so art within therapy has an important cognitive function and represents a shift from skeptical to critical thinking. Art increases freedom and flexibility in artists and it is actually the basic means of transformation in therapeutic work. Why is art so special in art therapy and why is it so present, what is the basic difference between psychotherapy and art therapy? Art therapy, unlike psychotherapy, with its numerous creative communications comes to the recognition and solution of problems, avoiding the numerous possibilities of resistance that we have in psychoanalysis and a person can take a distance from the problem projected on the image.