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Hanes, Michael J. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2007
In this brief report, two examples are presented of self-portraits spontaneously produced by chemically dependent patients who participated in art therapy while in an acute inpatient psychiatric hospital. The author concludes that self-portraits provide true-to-life representations of the diseased aspects of the self and enable patients to…
Descriptors: Patients, Art Therapy, Psychiatric Hospitals, Portraiture