Adrian Hill, Tuberculosis and Art Therapy Adrian Keith Graham Hill is held by many as the founder of art therapy. Hill’s 1945 book Art Versus Illness documents the birth of the field. While recovering from tuberculosis in a sanatorium, Hill…
Within the profession, art therapists have been working outdoors in nature, working therapeutically and with environmental issues for several years (Siddons Heginworth, 2008, Rust 2011, Jones 2012). Through the experience of art therapists and the growing research and publications within…
Saturday 28th February, I ducked through the Henry VIII Gate at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and found my way to the Robin Brook Center. Unsure and a little flustered, I consulted the security guard at the front desk to see if…
Art Therapy is an incredibly helpful way of exploring your life, feelings and relationships. Usually you will meet with your therapist on a weekly basis to make art, explore your feelings and develop a relationship that will help you toward…
How art therapy can be viewed as a mind/body practice providing a means of regulation via newly experienced cognitive and sensory processing aiding the chance for neural plasticity. By Colleen Steiner Westling Art Therapist, London Art Therapy Centre "A human being functions…
