[...]... EXPRESSION IN THERAPY language Art serves the healing of the psyche through the material substances of what is used in the making of an image Here, it is the tactile sensuality of undiluted paint, the flowing rivers of water colors, the messiness of charcoals and graphite, and the dirty-ness of our hands and brushes and paint on the floor, the textures of paper and linens and walls upon which we can smudge and. .. of the Healing- Flow Model and Interpretative Quilting In the metaphor at the beginning of this chapter, theory and text are like rock and water The rock contains and gives structure to the water Yet the water has the power to change and move the rocks and sand that contain it In a picture, it is the lines that define the shapes and that give form to colors Colors influence our perception of lines In. .. awareness, yet they still affect us in many ways The dialogical process between being (mind, body, and soul) and the world continuously redefines our boundaries and who we are able to be Figure 1.2: Dreaming and the healing flow of images (completed in 1999) 21 22 THE HEALING FLOW: ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN THERAPY We are mind, body, and spirit and the songs of our being need to resonate with the physical,... within at another time? The sequencing within each of the cases described by Martina document the step-less evolution of what happens during the wavering yet ever surfacing and evolving flow of healing while painting The sequencing as she discusses it shows clearly patients’ beings moving in and out of the being of the world Paintings that are made while healing contain shadows of our histories They,... styles These writings further support the notion of the importance of an image and the different functions it can play for us in our understanding of the world The following four themes emerged in their work: First, memory is socially and culturally constructed, and recourse to the processes of construction must mediate the understanding of memory, especially the understanding of its embeddedness in active... methods and to create a greater balance and respect between the arts, and the sciences 24 THE HEALING FLOW: ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN THERAPY For me as a researcher, therapist, and artist, the images in the imagistic 1 pauses of this book telegraph what has been comprehended in this work The meaning of the metaphor of the Healing- Flow Model itself has significance for my work as a therapist, researcher, and. .. such as the lighting, the placement of the objects, and the model’s posture, would change slightly during each session This gave further layers of experiences that were captured in the final image, in some way It is this that creates the richness and depth of a rendering and which opened my understanding of the subject more deeply and expanded my internal truth and understanding of the world with its... within the therapy context were explored These complexities were impelled by the duality and complexity of mind, body, and spirit relationships These complex relationships were examined within the microcosm of art therapy and my experience with the image-making process The pictures in the images contained in this book are their own record of the process of art toward healing They show the possibilities they... connected to language centers on the left side of the brain How then can people truly appreciate their own place in space and time if they cannot put words to their past experiences? Indeed, developments in neurobiology supports using therapeutic imagery as the basis for accessing and linking emotions with narrative, and ultimately developing understanding and meaning The metaphor of the Interpretative... and themes represented in the different quilt blocks are clarified Thus, the border and the organizational structure of the quilt freeze the continuous flow of lived experience and, in doing so, filter out some of the details and noise of the phenomena the quilt depicts The following pages will introduce the reader to some of the important observations identified through this work The metaphor of the . 2005 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Schnetz, Martina. The healing flow : artistic expression in therapy : creative arts and the process of healing : an image/word approach inquiry. 19 Approach to Inquiry and Psychotherapy The Healing- Flow Model and its Implications 22 Theoretical Considerations of the Healing- Flow Model and 31 Interpretative Quilting 2 Interpretative Quilting as. Study of the Healing Flow within a Clinical Setting 4 The Role of Contextual Factors in Interpretative 77 Quilting Contextual Features of the Dialogical Image/Word Process in 78 Therapy and the Interpretative