Art Psychotherapy by Wadeson Harriet

Author:Wadeson, Harriet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2010-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

Delusions

In contrast to hallucinatory material, the 23 delusions represented in the art were consistently unpleasant, often terrifying. Many were persecutory, entailing a punishing experience in response to some action commited by the patient (e.g., taking psychedelic drugs). In other instances, seclusion was perceived as a punishment for committing some crime unknown to the patient. Figure 14.14 was drawn by a young woman, Jill, who believed she was about to die. She said she was tied down (in fact, she was in a wet sheet pack) in order to be cut open and given a heart transplant. She drew herself as a clothespin, feeling “trapped and clamped.” In another example, a college girl drew her belief that everyone in the world had been killed (her mother had recently died) and that she was left to starve to death in the seclusion room. When in seclusion, many patients believed they were in jail, and some thought it was a gas chamber. In Figure 15.1, Cynthia has drawn herself waiting for the gas to be turned on. (The gas chamber was a common delusion, as noted in the preceding chapter.)

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.