Topic: Psychology of Expressive Therapies: Healing Through Music, Art, Movement, and Film

Catalog description

An overview of the dynamics of the healing process through creative art (CA) therapies (e.g. music for Alzheimer's patients, humor for depression). Class interactions will include participatory opportunities in creative art disciplines, CA practitioner speakers, films and selected class trips to special CA events in the Metropolitan area. Students will review most critical psychological studies in expressive therapy.