"The case of j" | Art therapy and stuttering

The ATe is a non-profit professional association whose main objectives are to regulate the practice and training of art therapy and to help consolidate and officially recognize the profession in Spain.
Art Therapy made by volunteers from ATe is a therapeutic framework and the methodology which mainly used on art therapy theory, group analytic psychotherapy, dynamic psychotherapies and contemporary art theory. As a general rule, ""Art Therapy"" is indicated for people who, due to their circumstances or the disease they suffer, find it difficult to verbally articulate their conflicts and emotions.
Methodology: 36 individual sessions spaced once a week and lasting one hour over almost a year. J's process is structured from the plastic point of view of his work, which speaks to us from the first moment about creations with a direct connection to the expression of his emotions. In principle, the use of color in his drawings and the decoration of ceramic pieces are linked to the symbolization of emotions, as is the expressive way of using charcoal and clay, which is also connected to the expression and meaning of the same, especially anger and fear. To show this process, J's plastic work is classified into 4 phases: phase 1: exploratory and expressive, phase 2 of recognition and materialization, phase 3 of understanding and containment, and phase 4 of acceptance and reception.