- Art therapy gives patients the emotional support they need to cultivate their creative outlet.
- It focuses more on the patient's emotional wellbeing rather than their physical wellbeing.
- It allows patients to express their underlying emotions in a healthy way.
“The task of therapy is not to eliminate suffering but to give a voice to it, to find a form in which it can be expressed. Expression is itself transformation; this is the message that art brings. The therapist then would be an artist of the soul, working with sufferers to enable them to find the proper container for their pain, the form in which it would be embodied.”
- Stephen K. Levine