title: Art - a strategic and empirical therapy?
abstract: Art therapy in Britain has progressed on two main lines, the empirical (aesthetic) and the strategic (psychological). In the writer's experience neither approach is adequate to deal with one particular style of creative expression, referred to as the basic archaic, linear style, and indicative of severe autistic regression when it becomes stereotyped. Attention is drawn to the importance of the appearance of fragments of other (transitional) styles that may appear and offer the key to therapeutic progress.
mesh_terms: D001155:Art Therapy; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*