How can creativity and art therapy help to enhance management of ones own emotional state and others. A practical lecture for professionals in care and education Imke Wood 2009 www.creativexpression.org.uk see also Health and medical

1. CREATIVITY AND EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT A training day for professionals working with clients with challenging behaviour

11. Freud; The development of the self; Ego Id Superego

14. The therapeutic creative relationship Creative process allows revisiting of the developmental obstacles Unconsciously the mind searches for opportunities to fill and mend the gap The creative materials/methods help relive traumatic/fearsome aspects and to manipulate them/ adjust them to be integrated as ‘pat aspects’ not controlling powers. The therapeutic relationship and material is not ‘reality’. They are not perceived as psychological risk. Revisiting and reliving aspects of the four elementary needs for ‘normal’ development can provoke healing, readjustment and building of a functional personality. Reliving is done by transference of emotion/interaction and identities onto the therapeutic carer. Relationship acts as CANVAS through a psychodynamic process All work can be done non-verbally and using symbolic expression.