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Art therapy in treatment of affective disorders and emotionally unstable personality disorder
HEIDINGEROVÁ, Jana
The presented bachelor thesis deals with the topic of emotions and its influence on the artwork, as well as with the detection of the specific emotional expression of the authors in their artefacts. In this work, artefacts of psychiatric patients hospitalized for the treatment of affective disorders or emotionally unstable personality disorders are explored. The thesis describes similarities and differences in the manifestation of emotions in the artwork of patients with various diagnosis belonging to the diagnostic categories mentioned above. Both, the theoretical and the empirical part try to map the characteristic features of the art expression of these patients and at the same time to outline appropriate techniques and topics for practising art therapy with them. The theoretical part summarizes the most important terms and theories of emotions, emotional development, personality development, ontogenesis of art expression and emotional manifestations in artwork, it also describes the history of art therapy, art therapy with psychiatric patients and diagnostic characteristics of affective disorders and emotionally unstable personality disorder. The empirical part includes four case reports and it also contains analysis of a total of 88 artefacts to answer research questions. The results point to some differences in patient's art expression according to their diagnosis. Due to the limited size of the research sample and the methods used, it is not advisable to generalize the outcomes of this paper. However, the conclusions of the thesis may serve a topic for further studies.
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Personality disorders in comorbidity with substance use
Váhalová, Martina ; Reichelová, Lenka (advisor) ; Kalina, Kamil (referee)
Comorbidity of pathological personality structure and using of addictive substanses. This thesis deals with the borderline personal disorders and relation this personal disorders and using addictive substances of people from self-help group for people with personal disorders. Start pointing are informations about borderline personal disorders and their relationship for using of addictive substanses and many Czech and foreign studies witch is pointing out high prevalence of personality disorders with substance abusers. The theoretical part is divided to desciption of borderline personal disorders and diagnostic od personal disorders. Little part is apply to summary of surveys, witch was perform. The practical part was directed to description of analyzing three case studies and interpretation. The partial goal was inderstanding life stories, discovery important trait and clarify possible connection with using abusus substanses. I reached the goals of this thesis by the methods of qualitative research, using a semistructured interview that was later on transformed into a case history. Case history was interpretated. The results offer also an exemplification of possible specific personality disorders. The research file consisted of three clients from self-help group for person with personal disorders....
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