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Peer reviewedHanes, Michael J. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1998
Explores some of the factors involving abstract imagery in the work of art-therapy patients and presents examples of abstract imagery produced by patients in an acute-patient psychiatric hospital. Examples illustrate that abstract imagery can serve not only a defensive purpose, but a progressive function as well. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Case Studies, Imagery, Mental Disorders
