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Brain on Art Therapy-Understanding the Connections Between Facilitated Visual Self-expression, Health, and Well-Being

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This chapter provides an overview of processes and outcomes of art therapy using both personal experiences and professional examples of art-making. Along with acknowledging scholarship on the purpose and impacts of visual art-making, the focus of this chapter is specifically on the components of art therapy, including art-making, the art product, the patient/client, and the art therapist and how we might approach research by integrating findings from imaging technologies and neurobiological approaches.

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Kaimal, G. (2019). Brain on Art Therapy-Understanding the Connections Between Facilitated Visual Self-expression, Health, and Well-Being. In: Contreras-Vidal, J., Robleto, D., Cruz-Garza, J., Azorín, J., Nam, C. (eds) Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24326-5_13

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