Studio of the Displaced: Community-Based Art Therapy Amidst War Trauma (Abstract)

‫הפקולטה למדעי הרווחה והבריאות‬ ]‫[הקלד טקסט‬ Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences ‫בית הספר לטיפול באמצעות אמנויות‬ Graduate SchoolAcademic Journal of Creative ArtsofTherapies Creative Art Therapies August 2024 Vol. 14, Issue 1 Studio of the... More

‫הפקולטה למדעי הרווחה והבריאות‬ ]‫[הקלד טקסט‬ Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences ‫בית הספר לטיפול באמצעות אמנויות‬ Graduate SchoolAcademic Journal of Creative ArtsofTherapies Creative Art Therapies August 2024 Vol. 14, Issue 1 Studio of the Displaced: Community-Based Art Therapy Amidst War Trauma Aya Feldman, Sharon Boaz, Shlomit Rinat, Ofira Honig The day after October 7th, an open art therapy studio was established at a hotel in Tel Aviv for survivors of the massacre. This article explores the unique object relations system within a community-based art therapy group, using the open-safe studio model amidst a persistent disaster with cumulative traumas. These groups extend object relations theories into a pentagonal exploration space, focusing on the arrangement of materials, the art materials themselves, and the resulting artworks or fragments. This study examines these aspects, along with group dynamics, the art therapist's role, and individual participants. The studio, led Less