Art Therapy 2. Management of Psychosomatic Diseases

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

Art therapy is based on the idea that the traumatic experience may not be accessible verbally but instead is locked in a subconscious form. Metaphoric cues employed in art methods allow the delicate, ecological transformation of unpleasant experiences into conscious knowledge, and turn the emotional or physical pain into a resource. The course is focused on the management of psychosomatic diseases (diagnosis, treatment, prevention) with the methods of art therapy. Improvement of awareness in relationships and lifestyle, work with self-esteem, development of creative thinking and problem-solving, training of focusing, generalization, and isolation of the main ideas, and improvement of verbal and fine motor skills- are the few additional assets of the course which might be beneficial for the future physicians. The methods are designed for persons with ordinary creative skills and thus do not require special equipment or abilities. Students can expect informative and well-structured lectures followed by dynamic, interactive seminar classes. Topics of the second semester: art- management of feeding disorders, respiratory diseases, sexual dysfunction and infertility, autoimmune and skin diseases.

Lectures

• 1. Introduction to the topic. Pain is a language of the subconscious. - Zagorácz Olga
• 2. Psychosomatic aspects of feeding/weight disorders. Adequate comprehension of body needs. - Zagorácz Olga
• 3.

  Individual stress response. Psychosomatic aspects of respiratory diseases.

  - Zagorácz Olga
• 4. Psychosomatic aspects of sexual dysfunction and infertility. Types and inducing factors of sexual dysfunction. - Zagorácz Olga
• 5.

  Somatization. Psychosomatic aspects of autoimmune diseases. Basics of psychotherapy in autoimmune patients.

  - Zagorácz Olga
• 6. Psychosomatic aspects of skin diseases. Final test - Zagorácz Olga

Practices

Seminars

• 1. Management of pain in art-therapeutic (AT) practice. - Zagorácz Olga
• 2. Management and prevention of feeding disorders in AT practice. - Zagorácz Olga
• 3. Management and prevention of respiratory diseases in AT practice. - Zagorácz Olga
• 4. Management and prevention of sexual dysfunction in AT practice. - Zagorácz Olga
• 5. Management and prevention of diabetes mellitus, bronchial asthma, allergies in AT practice. - Zagorácz Olga
• 6. Management and prevention of skin diseases in AT practice. - Zagorácz Olga

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

The slides will be available.

Notes

Recommended literature

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing "Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing"
Udo Baer “Creative Therapy”

Bourbeau, L. “Listen to your body, best friend on Earth” and others
Thomas, H. “Somatics”
Levenson, J.L. "Textbook of psychosomatic medicine"

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Creative course task (performed at home)

Mid-term exams

Completed practical tasks.
Written test.

Making up for missed classes

Presentation on topic.

Exam topics/questions

The topics of the lectures.

Examiners

• Zagorácz Olga

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Zagorácz Olga