Psychiatria pre prax 2/2016
Chronic pain and art therapy
A psychotherapeutic treatment focalised on a multimodal approach of using imaginative methods of visual art and verbal input into the content and form of created files has been apply within a treatment of a patient suffering from spinal pain and headachesince his childhood. We worked through expression and reception. The following case study introduced causal analytical work using symbolic form and symbolic confrontation with pain.
Keywords: art therapy, chronic pain, depression, anticipatory fear
