دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی هنر درمانی در سرطان - زیبایی با اهمیت و مزیت - الزویر 2018

abstract

Art therapyis a powerful tool involving the use of artisticways of expression for physical andmental healing as well as the improvement of perception and cognitive functions. Art therapies are used to face the existence of life and death in serious diseases such as cancer, and visually express certain deeply-hidden feelings, such as fear and hope, by stimulating the memory. Through art therapy, cancer patients can express themselves with no need for talent, when they fall short of words16. The primary goal is to reveal the feelings of cancer patients and help them be happy: as psychoanalyst Jung says, “happy state is the creative state”.

3. Conclusion

Thanks to art therapies, cancerous individuals develop a way of expression by using creative and expressive methods through art, a kind of language, and can keep their physical and mental health better and more balanced, in comparison with patients not interested in art.18 In the light of works done, art therapy organizations to be included in cancer diagnosis and treatment centers, which are founded by investing millions of dollars, will give color to the system, and enable cancerous individuals and their relatives to feel psychologically and physiologically better, in such a way as to help them improve their quality of life.