Speaking the unspeakable: artistic expression in eating disorder research and schema therapy
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2016
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Hodge, L.
Simpson, S.
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Arts in Psychotherapy, 2016; 50:1-8
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This research study shows how drawing can be used in eating disorder research to uncover multiple meanings to develop, support, and supplement research findings. The processes of the research give women a voice to describe and process their experiences of having an eating disorder. The first section reports the response of a research participant in a study that used spoken, written and visual data to examine women‟s experiences of eating disorders and child sexual abuse. In the second section, a case study demonstrates how drawings created by clients in Schema Therapy for eating disorders can provide a pathway to access emotional states, which may otherwise be inaccessible through verbal dialogue. Using drawing can enable research participants to share insights and experiences in non-verbal ways. Drawing as part of schema therapy can provide the opportunity for the practitioner and the client to feel and experience complex emotional states related to current and past experience.
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Copyright 2016 Elsevier
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