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    Integrative psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that combines psychodynamic, existentialist, and humanistic approaches. It uses creative media like art, music, movement to help clients express themselves and examine their psychological and emotional experiences. The 'triangle structure' of client, therapist, and artwork opens new options for change. The goals are to integrate human dimensions, establish inner and outer contact, replace non-functioning patterns, and increase ability to make life decisions. Art therapy methods like drawing, modeling, masks are used to help clients understand choices and empower self-directed growth while respecting their value and experiences."

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    Integrative psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that combines psychodynamic, existentialist, and humanistic approaches. It uses creative media like art, music, movement to help clients express themselves and examine their psychological and emotional experiences. The 'triangle structure' of client, therapist, and artwork opens new options for change. The goals are to integrate human dimensions, establish inner and outer contact, replace non-functioning patterns, and increase ability to make life decisions. Art therapy methods like drawing, modeling, masks are used to help clients understand choices and empower self-directed growth while respecting their value and experiences."

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    Integrative psychotherapy

    Sandra Šipka – psychologist


    Zdenka Pantić – psychologist, gestalt therapist
    What Is Integrative Therapy?

    • Based on psychodynamic, existentialist


    and humanistic approaches
    • Helps people express themselves
    artistically and examine the
    psychological and emotional undertones
    • Uses creative media as the basic
    element of communication
    • Dialogue has the „triangle structure“: the
    client, the therapist and the art work. It is
    this „third“ object (art work) that opens
    new options for the realisation of
    change, healing and relief
    Basic philosophical settings
    • People are beings of relationships
    – focusing on the inner and outer
    contact as important for human
    functioning
    • Respecting the inner value of
    every person
    • Normalising functions of
    psychological processes
    • Connecting to positive life
    changes
    • Importance of individual
    development process
    • Importance of therapeutic
    relationship
    Goals

    • Integrating basic human


    dimensions (cognition, emotions,
    behaviour, corporeality)
    • Establishing inner and outer
    contact
    • Replacing non-functioning patterns
    with new ones enabling
    spontaneity, flexibility and a full
    experience of the present moment
    • Increasing the ability to make
    creative ane rational life decisions
    Methods
    • Psychodrama
    • Musical therapy
    • Drawing, painting,
    collage...
    • Modelling
    • Masks
    • Dolls
    • Mime
    • Dance, movement
    • Sewing, embroidery
    • Fairy tales – bibliotherapy
    • Scents, aromas
    Work materials
    Effects
    • Helping users to understand that they can choose the way of living in
    their world
    • Empowering them to select what they want
    • Learning that sometimes there is no freedom of choice – helping them
    to understand that they are not responsible for not having a choice at all
    • Persons with trauma need allies
    • Self-directed approach, restraint from judgement and interpretation
    • Respect and esteem
    • Establishing contact through the security of imagination
    Creativity
    Joseph Zinker, 1977: Creative Process in
    Gestalt Therapy
    • Licence for creativity (to live in a society full
    of self-control, we learn how to limit
    spontaneity)
    • Aspects of creative therapy: therapy is a
    process, change, growth, meeting, learning
    • Therapist is an artist, using their own
    inventiveness to help others
    • Love as creative tension in therapy (not
    sentimentality!) encourages trust
    • Gestalt is creative therapy: treats the person
    as an artistic medium in its complexity
    Obstacles to creativity
    • Fear of failure
    • Refusing to play
    • Myopia of resources
    • Rigid control
    • Avoiding frustration
    • Links to tradition
    • Poor fantasy life
    • Fear of the unknown
    • Rigid need for balance
    • Reluctance to influence
    (responsibility)
    Advantages and disadvantages
    • Adults need to cross the threshold of
    spontaneous expression
    • Creative media must be introduced
    cautiously, gradually, to avoid causing fear
    and anxiety (male asylum seekers and
    drawing…)
    • Caution and professional competence
    • In therapeutic work, creativity is connected
    to the joy of creation, play
    • Uncovers the power of expression and
    potentials
    • The unconscious is more easily accesible
    (compared to verbal methods)
    • Overcoming resistance
    • Power and danger: appear attractive – as
    easy and spectacular. Not the goal!
    Connecting with your feelings trough clay
    modeling – an example of art therapy in working
    with persons with traumatic experiences
    Clay properties
    • Soft, slimy, pliable, sensual...
    • Appears dirty, but in fact is clean fine dust
    easily washed, removed from hands, clothes…
    • Stimulates the most primary inner processes
    • Provides a tactile and kinesthetic experience;
    our fingertips contain some of the densest
    areas of nerve endings on the human body
    • Offers a natural way of connecting to the
    body and mind; immediacy of the material
    naturally integrates the body and mind
    • Unity of the material and the sculptor
    • Makes one’s own feelings closer
    • Arouses memories of early experiences
    Healing properties
    • Has healing properties – sculptors
    have noticed that cuts heal more
    quickly after working with clay
    • The levels of cortisol (stress hormone)
    are reduced in 75% participants of
    artistic production
    • Stimulates quicker recovery after
    disease
    • Helps to alleviate anxiety, depression
    and stress
    Clay and feelings

    • People who have lost a


    connection with their feelings
    or block them lose a
    connection with their senses
    • The sensuality of clay provides
    a bridge between their senses
    and their emotions

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