OOP
OOP: ORDER OF PEACE- An ongoing journal documenting the release of trauma.
Through methods like these, integrating art into therapy addresses a person’s whole experience. This is critical with PTSD.
"People experience PTSD through memory, emotion, and the body. Talk therapy and CBT may not be enough to address all of these areas. Reliving trauma is difficult. That’s where art therapy comes in."
Art Therapy and PTSD
"Studies have suggested that some traumatic memories are stored nonverbally (Gantt & Tinnin, 2009; Langer, 2011; Talwar, 2007) and may be retrieved through recollections of sensory, affective, visual, olfactory, auditory, and kinesthetic elements (Langer, 2011). Although verbal therapies fail to address nonverbal aspects of trauma experiences, art therapy can access trauma recollections by engaging the senses. Art therapy has been hypothesized to bring order to traumatic experiences by creating links to nonverbal memories so that dissociated memories may be organized and processed in a meaningful way (Gantt & Tinnin, 2009).
Art therapy provides a safe way to approach traumatic memories through the use of symbols, which may facilitate consolidation of experiences by converting an artistic form, representative of emotions and reactions to trauma, into linguistic communication (Gantt & Tinnin, 2007; Morgan & Johnson, 1995). According to Talwar (2007), art making is hypothesized to involve bilateral stimulation, engaging the integrating and planning functions of the prefrontal cortex to sequence narratives using left brain functions. This integration between the left and right hemispheres of the brain allows for complete processing and storage of traumatic experiences in long-term memory.
Art therapy provides externalization and emotional distance through materials and processes that use mediators, such as a paintbrush, between the patient and the image. The controlled distance encourages the patient to depict trauma experiences and to view the finished image at a physical distance (Tinnin, Bills, & Gantt, 2002). According to Tinnin et al., these techniques can be useful when the patient does not consciously remember the sequence of events in visual trauma narratives, and they can help the patient feel safe enough to address unresolved trauma memories."
OOP (ORDER OF PEACE), is the beginning stages of journaling the release of trauma. The drawings are free of critical thinking. Only after I return to them later, with new insight, do I look at them objectively. Sometimes reworking them, if ever so slightly, or not. Enhancing a once subconscious thought, bringing it to significance. I allow and invite the mediums influence on the pages that precede, and follow, the current entry. Embracing the marks and working with them. I akin this to accepting both history and the future, coming to terms, and finding peace. I bravely turn the page. Artists, such as myself, continue to use art as a spark to critical conversations around universal issues.
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