Exploring the Museum's Images – Exploring My Image (Exploration des images du musée, exploration de mon image). Issue 2 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pantagoutsou, Aphrodite; Ioannides, Elisabeth; Vaslamatzis, Grigoris
• Is Part Of: Canadian Art Therapy Association journal. Volume 30:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 69
• Page End: 77
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Art therapy -- Periodicals; Art therapy -- Canada -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 615.85156
• DOI: 10.1080/08322473.2017.1375769
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0832-2473

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In early 2017, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) in collaboration with the First Psychiatric Department of the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital carried out a three-month pilot art psychotherapy program on the museum's premises. The program was held for a closed group of 10 participants, following an open call. During the long-lasting period of economic, political and social crisis that Greece is facing, the two institutions have been collaborating in order to offer participants a space for self-expression, creativity, critical thinking and for reducing anxiety through art making while simultaneously engaging participants with the museum collection.