Art and Mental Health Vol 6: More Free Play

Image credit: Gina Greenlee, paint, ink, marker, collage

An excerpt from Free Play, Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch:

“I have never ceased to be astounded at the power of writing, music making, drawing, or dance to pull me out of sadness, disappointment, depression, bafflement. I am not talking about entertainment or distraction, but of playing, dancing, drawing, writing my way through and out. This process resembles the best in psychotherapy. We don’t go away and avoid the troubling thing, but rather confront it in a new framework.”

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