Overview
Provides an extensive overview of art therapy.
Deals with specific art expressions (such as dance, cinema and ceroplastic) and neurological correlations.
Specifically focuses on art-based therapy (used to encourage self-understanding, assist in emotional insight and facilitate art activities)
Explains the effectiveness of this form of intervention in connection with neurological diseases.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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About this book
This book analyzes and discusses in detail art therapy, a specific tool used to sustain health in affective developments, rehabilitation, motor skills and cognitive functions. Art therapy is based on the assumption that the process of making art (music, dance, painting) sparks emotions and enhances brain activity. Art therapy is used to encourage personal growth, facilitate particular brain areas or activity patterns, and improve neural connectivity. Treating neurological diseases using artistic strategies offers us a unique option for engaging brain structural networks that enhance the brain’s ability to form new connections. Based on brain plasticity, art therapy has the potential to increase our repertoire for treating neurological diseases. Neural substrates are the basis of complex emotions relative to art experiences, and involve a widespread activation of cognitive and motor systems. Accordingly, art therapy has the capacity to modulate behavior, cognition, attention and movement. In this context, art therapy can offer effective tools for improving general well-being, quality of life and motivation in connection with neurological diseases.
The book discusses art therapy as a potential group of techniques for the treatment of neurological disturbances and approaches the relationship between humanistic disciplines and neurology from a holistic perspective, reflecting the growing interest in this interconnection.Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brain and Art
Book Subtitle: From Aesthetics to Therapeutics
Editors: Bruno Colombo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23580-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23579-6Published: 26 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23582-6Published: 26 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23580-2Published: 29 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 182
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Psychology, general, History of Medicine