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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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