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The visual story of an art journey towards healing, that both preceded and accompanied the healing after the suicide of a loved one.
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NEWS &#124; Art Therapy for all Those Affected by Cancer &#124; CommunityNI.org &#124; The portal for the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland &#124; Supported by NICVA  
Art Therapy for all Those Affected by Cancer  Art therapy encourages you to express yourself and communicate how you feel. Sometimes it is hard to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=241&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the empty vessel: art is therapy</title>
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art is therapy

    

          art is therapy


&#8220;Childhood
rituals have grown with adult veneers and have turned into a
manifestation of obsessive compulsive order. Art has been added as a
legitimizing manifestation that allows a semblance of sanity. The
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		<title>Postcards from Katrina</title>
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Postcards from Katrina TM: Sharing Stories of Hope and Help
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		<title>Art serves as therapy, gateway to feelings</title>
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Art serves as therapy, gateway to feelings
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Artwork has always existed, as early as the cave man period when pictures were drawn on cave walls telling stories and showing events. At that time, it was considered a form of communication.
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		<title>Teen puts her faith in power of art to good use</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen of the Week:Teen puts her faith in power of art to good use &#8211; Neighborhoods  
&#160;Teen puts her faith in power of art to good use

By WENDI WINTERS&#160; For The Capital
&#8220;Nice hair!&#8221; a boy called out admiringly as he passed &#8220;Emden,&#8221; better known as Emily Dennis, in the hallway of Southern High School.
&#8220;I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=233&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Art Imitates Pain, It Can Help Heal,</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Art Imitates Pain, It Can Help Heal, a Therapy Group Finds &#8211; New York Times  
When Art Imitates Pain, It Can Help Heal, a Therapy Group Finds By ABEER ALLAM Published: July 14, 2005  
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		<title>Art therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in cancer patients (press release)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in cancer patients (press release) 
Friday, August 25, 2006 by: NewsTarget
Key concepts: 	cancer,  	cancer patients and  	anxiety.
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		<title>Cancer patients find comfort in artistic expression</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art therapy

Cancer patients find comfort in artistic expression


Jodie Sinnema, 				edmontonjournal.com
Published:&#160;Tuesday, January 09, 2007
When Lee and her son sat down with their chisels to carve their soapstone polar bears, the pressure was off to talk about Lee’s terminal bone-marrow cancer, which she has fought for 10 years.
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		<title>Art goes completely postal</title>
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Art Goes Completely Postal
Envelope Collective Encourages Creation of Mail Art 

Sent on their way: Envelope Collective received this writing mail art from an art therapy patient at the McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA
By Robyn Weiss
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January 9, 1998
ART REVIEW;
By ROBERTA SMITH
Art rarely strays far from life, from the feelings and character of the person who makes it. But sometimes it sticks so close to individual experience as to become a virtual shadow, different in substance but identical in outline.
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		<title>Art therapy touches lives at Runnells</title>
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Health: 
Posted on Wednesday, August 23 @ 14:06:18 CDT by webmaster

BERKELEY HEIGHTS — The Activities Therapy Department at Runnells Specialized Hospital of Union County celebrates creativity with the “Art of The Masters” program. The program, administered by Creative Notions, has been enriching the lives of its participants with a two-step format since 2000, with projects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=213&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in cancer patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in cancer patients (press release)  
Art therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in cancer patients (press release)
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 by NewsTarget
Key concepts: cancer, cancer patients and anxiety. 
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		<title>Home Is Where the Art Is &#8211; Mental Health &#8211; MSN Health &amp; Fitness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Home Is Where the Art Is

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The film opens with a tight close-up of a freckle-faced girl in studious wire-rimmed glasses. She&#8217;s holding the microphone like an old pro and delivering her intro with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=211&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get creative and colour your life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Argus &#8211; Get creative and colour your life  
Get creative and colour your life

Art therapist Andrea Brand says being creative gives people a sense of their inner world &#8211; which is the first part of transformation

June 14, 2006
  By Jeanne Viall
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naples Sun Times &#8211; Art as therapy and road to the unconscious  
Art as therapy and road to the unconscious
By Silvia Casabianca 	07/05/2006 
How would you feel if your therapist or counselor, instead of asking you about your concerns, your emotions or your dreams, brought out art materials and asked you to put your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=207&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com Healing artwork speaks to counselor
ART THERAPY: Art therapy allows troubled clients to express hard-to-articulate feelings
BY JERRY DAVICH
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This story ran on nwitimes.com on Monday, July 24, 2006 12:11 AM CDT 
One colorful collage shows an image of a rifle shooting a bottle of alcohol. One screams out in bold print, &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk.&#8221;
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		<title>Without a trace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without a trace
Their crime was called an act of ‘unparalleled barbarity’. Now the two boys who murdered James Bulger are men, their freedom and identities protected by the  courts. So what has become of them?
By David James Smith  Without a trace &#8211; Sunday Times &#8211; Times Online
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Healing artwork speaks to counselor
ART THERAPY: Art therapy allows troubled clients to express hard-to-articulate feelings
BY JERRY DAVICH
jdavich@nwitimes.com219.933.3376
This story ran on nwitimes.com on Monday, July 24, 2006 12:11 AM CDT 
&#160;I One colorful collage shows an image of a rifle shooting a bottle of alcohol. One screams out in bold print, &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk.&#8221;
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		<title>Art therapy professor to work with tsunami survivors</title>
		<link>http://arttherapy.wordpress.com/2006/07/25/art-therapy-professor-to-work-with-tsunami-survivors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Art therapy professor to work with tsunami survivors

Dr. Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro is traveling with a team of American professionals to the east coast of India to work with tsunami survivors.  Dr. Bordonaro, a second year art therapy professor at Emporia State University, has worked abroad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arttherapy.wordpress.com&blog=158713&post=203&subd=arttherapy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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