Introducing a Change in the Clinical Setting: New Technology as a New Player in Art Therapy for Psychosis

The experiential workshop aims to introduce technological interventions in art therapy setting as a further modality that can promote curiosity, storytelling andreflection. Thanks to new intuitive technologies participants... [ view full abstract ]

The experiential workshop aims to introduce technological interventions in art therapy setting as a further modality that can promote curiosity, storytelling and
reflection. Thanks to new intuitive technologies participants will be immersed in their own images and just by moving their bodies they will be able to make drawings. The workshop has four different stages: i) the initial part of the session participants will be fully immersed into the art making process using traditional art therapy approaches; ii) the second part all the images made will be clustered together and viewed by participants aiming to promote reflections on the mental state both during the art making process and as a beholder; iii) the third part participants will be invited to enter into their own art images aiming to play, revisit and/or edit them; iv) the fourth part of the session, participants will be invited to reflect on the “ augmented reality” experience. This experiential workshop aims to promote a  vibrant discussion on how the interaction of art therapy and computer-based and new electronic technology can promote the storytelling, self-awareness and recovery of patients with psychosis. In addition, the workshop aims to promote reflection on which service user cohort this interactive “digital” art therapy could be targeted, focusing in developing research projects.

Target audience and learning aims

Workshop for art therapists, mental health professionals from different specialization and trainees who are interested in understanding the role of the visual art image together with new technologies in the journey of working with psychosis.