Arts Therapies and New Challenges in Psychiatry

Karin Dannecker has been the Director of the MA in Art Therapy programme at the Weissensee Art Academy Berlin since 2000. Her research interests include the effectiveness of art therapy, the role of aesthetics in art therapy, and the psychology of the artist. Professor Dannecker has also worked with psychiatric and psychosomatic patients since 1987. Her clinical work includes art therapy with children, adolescents, rheumatology patients and art therapy with adult psychiatric and psychosomatic patients.

List of Contributors Foreword 1. Music Therapy: Differentiation of Emotions in Schizophrenia (Susanne Bauer) 2. From the "inside feeling" to Narration: Symbolization and Aesthetic Emotion in Music Therapy (Christine Falquet-Clin and Edith Lécourt) 3. Dramatherapy Work in the Treatment of Schizophrenic Psychoses (Johannes Junker) 4. Therapeutic Effects of Brief Group Interactive Art Therapy with War Veterans (Alexander Kopytin and Alexey Lebedev) 5. A Neglected Area in Schizophrenia Treatment and Research: The Efficacy of Art Therapy. Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial and Qualitative Study (Christiane Montag and Karin Dannecker) 6. Changes in Well-Being of Schizophrenic Patients after Movement Therapy: Results of a Multicenter RCT Study (Valerie Pohlman, Sabine Koch andThomas Fuchs) 7. Adapting Winnicott's Squiggle Technique in Group Art Therapy to a Psychotic Population Undergoing a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Programme (Alice Reid) 8. The Borrowed Image in Art Therapy with Psychiatric Patients: The Internalization Process (Elizabeth Stone-Matho) 9. Longing for Belonging (Zuzana Vasičák Očenášová and Iveta Koblic Zedková) 10. Assessing Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia by the Use of Aristotle’s Poetics during a Dramatherapy Process (Lambros Yotis M.D.)