Hope, meaning and the creative arts therapies in the treatment of AIDS. Special Issue: AIDS and the creative arts therapies

Journal/Book: Arts in Psychotherapy. 1993; 20: 285-297.

Abstract: Proposes that creative arts therapies have a significant role to play in the treatment of AIDS patients. Not only do they offer an existential form of therapy that accepts patients as they are and affords them an opportunity to define themselves as they wish to be, they are primarily concerned with aesthetic issues of form and existential notions of potential rather than concepts of pathology. Creative arts therapies emphasize personal contact and the value of the patient as a creative productive human being and play a role in the fostering of hope in the individual.

Note: creative arts therapies; patients with AIDS

Keyword(s): Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; creative arts therapy; adulthood

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