Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul

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On a trip to the Portland Art Museum last year, I walked around a corner to be faced with a stunning piece by one of my favorite artists, James Lavadour. We have not come across many within this genre so the author has certainly hit a gap within the market.

After our initial studies with healthy adults, we wanted to examine whether cancer patients and caregivers experiencing chronic stress would benefit from art therapy. Twenty-one artists involved themselves and I hung the show in the beautiful little art gallery at the Ontario Shores Mental Health Centre in Durham Region in Ontario (where I am a volunteer).

Interestingly, this interaction seems to work best with art that “is not a photocopy,” according to the neurologist. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's Web site ( www. Later in history, Stendhal, the 19th century French author, wrote of nearly fainting upon seeing frescoes in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, where he felt, “a kind of ecstasy” from being “absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio. I hope that scientists will furnish verification for that last statement of Rivera’s, which no one, to my knowledge, has ever made before, and which offers one of the best reasons for our faith in the importance of art. A worldwide community of artists receive these letters for inspiration, discussion, friendship and connectivity. In refining and reimagining these ideas in the context of today, McNiff brings a fresh vision to his work and offers a valuable answer to the increasingly incoherent fragmentation of mental health care. There are scientific studies that demonstrate how people benefit from exposure to art, as well as social prescription programs in which doctors prescribe museum visits, art classes, and other creative endeavors.

Through art, they can slowly begin to communicate more openly about previously unsayable, shameful, or even taboo topics. Shaun was selected by Mary Ann Brussat for the original Living Spiritual Teachers Project recognizing his contributions to everyday spirituality and the enhancement of creative imagination. In today’s post, creativity coach Shannon Borg points out one of art’s most important functions, as a healing agent. Julia Cameron goes in-depth and spells out a lot of things that I think most of us know intuitively.