Psychopathologies and the Methods of Creative Art Therapy

Gonzalez, Avantae

Psychopathologies and the Methods of Creative Art Therapy

Persistent URL

https://dspace.allegheny.edu/handle/10456/56019

Author(s)

Gonzalez, Avantae

Date Issued

August 28, 2022

Abstract

With the increase of documented and even undocumented psychopathologies within our modern society we must be able to have methods to properly cope with them. Allowing us to use methods we typically wouldn’t think about being creative art therapy. I have researched several psychopathologies from eating disorders, depression, anti-social personality disorder, trichotillomania, and anxiety. In conjunction with this research on psychopathologies, I also did research on creative art therapy and how each form of creative art therapy can act as a form of treatment. I went into the specifics of each form of therapy from drawing, poem, music, and dance therapy, and how they can affect us in positive ways. I then wrote a play to combine these components in a college setting with characters who just so happen to have psychopathologies.

Major

Psychology

Theatre

First Reader(s)

Stanger, Sarah B.