Title: New Horizons of Holistic Healing through Creative Expression
Abstract: AbstractFeelings of fragmentation and alienation are characteristic of the spirit of our times. In recent years holistic health movements have sprung up all over the world. They tend to counteract splitting and fragmenting tendencies by placing the emphasis on the harmonious integration of body, mind, and spirit and creating a mutually satisfying interaction between the individual and his natural ecological environment.Ferguson (1980) described the transformations that our society is experiencing as creating a climate in which each individual considers his or her own personal transformation as the basis for the transformation of society as a whole. The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformations in the 1980s consists of an informal network of people from all walks of life who have joined in this endeavor to achieve a change in the surrounding society based on personal experiences of change. Roszak (1979) in Person/ Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society introduces us to the "Age of the Person," which, for the first time in human history, makes the personal self-fulfillment of each individual person the avowed goal of society.Garai (1979) outlined the seven specific steps that must be taken to educate each individual toward the conscious assertion of these five principles. This article defines each of these seven steps, and presents specific exercises in art therapy and other expressive modalities that the author has developed during the past 10 years to assist students to gain holistic personality integration. The purpose of the detailed descriptions of these methodologies is to provide the holistically oriented student of expressive therapies with a basic holistic healing training manual that can be used both for personal holistic personality integration and for holistic healing with clients. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJosef E. GaraiJosef E. Garai, PhD, ATR, is professor emeritus at Pratt Institute, New York. Dr. Garai is a creative expressive therapist in private practice, and is the founder and former chairperson of the Graduate Art, Dance and Movement Therapy Department at Pratt Institute. A consultant to many community mental health associations, Dr. Garai has authored many articles in psychology, art therapy, and social issues. He received the Adolf Meyer Award, from the Association for Improvement of Mental Health for leadership in community mental health organization and education.
Publication Year: 1984
Publication Date: 1984-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
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