Assessment of art therapy’s case studies as a measure for healing and therapeutic benefits

Abstract

Art therapy’s importance was realised by the artists themselves who found therapeutic impacts in it and started to use it as a therapy first with the war soldiers who had faced harsh conditions recently as art therapy came into its working right after the war ended and then it shifted to all other kinds of illnesses as well with which it too surprisingly showed positive results. Art therapy has been affective with many mental health conditions and has shown beneficial effects with people of all ages from children to adults either by helping them express, bonding with others, release their stress through it and find meaning to life and the list goes on. This study chooses the most engrossing and divergent cases that provides evidence of case studies of a patient with schizophrenia, military servant with PTSD, autistic non-verbal child, Prisoners with depressive symptoms, their art work, meaning attached to them and their healing effects with this therapy which showed overall escalation in their wellbeing and improvement with life thus showing how diverse the field of art therapy is and its restorative power.