Therapy
Pictotherapy: Comprehensive Approach
The pioneer of pictotherapy in Mexico makes it clear that patients to whom we have referred not be rehabilitated at all if they do not follow proper treatment, which includes proper diagnosis, medication compliance and ongoing psychotherapeutic care.
“A psychosocial and rehabilitation must be comprehensive, especially if we talk about bipolar or schizophrenia. Must start from the fact that we must make good diagnoses, it is essential and keep the medical approach, because we must not forget that these people present with mental illness. Read the rest of this entry »
Pictotherapy: Tangible Progress
It is true that the painting therapy is just beginning to be applied in our country, and is therefore not yet part of a formal medical protocol that helps to define accurately the changes that are generated in the quality of life of mental patients. However, Dr. Reza-Garduño Trevino is fully convinced of its effects.
“What I can say, according to my experience, is that a therapeutic tool pictotherapy is very rich, who works for patients improves. It is a fact that if we compare a group of patients attending the pictotherapy with another does not, both well diagnosed and medicated, we see that the first moves more easily, and this happens because we work in areas that the product does not intervene,” he says. Read the rest of this entry »
Pictotherapy: The Strokes of The Subconscious
The pictotherapy, explains Dr. Reza-Garduño Trevino “can be applied in psychotic patients (who have lost contact with reality), such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder found in the phase of mania or euphoria, but also in patients with personality disorders, anxiety or depression. ”
The technique, ruling he was National Coordinator of Mental Health, “it is similar to psychoanalytic sessions in the sense that the driver of the group participates very little and virtually becomes an observer, but the patient will use as expressive method of painting and not the word. It is important to emphasize that in the workshop do not care produce aesthetic works, do not pursue a recreational purpose nor the formation of painters, so that the trial is beyond value.”
Abounds on the subject: “Patients paint a room in which you install a central table, which contains all the material of paint, ie, water, brushes and colors. You prefer working with acrylic because it dries faster and because the texture of this material often leads to a kind of regression which evokes the era in which children could manipulate pictures or crayons.” Read the rest of this entry »
History of Pictotherapy
It is well known that the art was used as a therapeutic technique since the days of classical Greece, but we can say that in modern times emerged as a tool to find the overall balance of man during the Second World War (1939-1945) . This consideration arose from the experience of Adrian Hill, an English artist who released his paintings by nostalgia and anguish, while recovering in a hospital.
Hill shared with other patients the soothing effects of this creative activity and, over time, it was found that some patients were able to communicate through drawing the fears and suffering they experienced in the field of battle. After the war, Adrian Hill decided to stay in the hospital, becoming one of the first contemporary art therapists. Read the rest of this entry »
Pictotherapy, Mind Healing Arts
The painting can become a means of expression for people with mental illness, enabling them to communicate their emotions and ideas with images, but also a resource that facilitates and improves the approach to these diseases.
Art is one of the ways that human beings have to feed your spirit, and a fun and even a representative demonstration that documents the history and identity of each of the peoples of the planet. Read the rest of this entry »