Hu Jingxuan, Zhang Jinhuan, Hu Liyu, Yu Haibo, Xu Jinping
College of Creative Design, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China.
The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 12;12:686005. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686005. eCollection 2021.
Art therapy, as a non-pharmacological medical complementary and alternative therapy, has been used as one of medical interventions with good clinical effects on mental disorders. However, systematically reviewed in detail in clinical situations is lacking. Here, we searched on PubMed for art therapy in an attempt to explore its theoretical basis, clinical applications, and future perspectives to summary its global pictures. Since drawings and paintings have been historically recognized as a useful part of therapeutic processes in art therapy, we focused on studies of art therapy which mainly includes painting and drawing as media. As a result, a total of 413 literature were identified. After carefully reading full articles, we found that art therapy has been gradually and successfully used for patients with mental disorders with positive outcomes, mainly reducing suffering from mental symptoms. These disorders mainly include depression disorders and anxiety, cognitive impairment and dementias, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and autism. These findings suggest that art therapy can not only be served as an useful therapeutic method to assist patients to open up and share their feelings, views, and experiences, but also as an auxiliary treatment for diagnosing diseases to help medical specialists obtain complementary information different from conventional tests. We humbly believe that art therapy has great potential in clinical applications on mental disorders to be further explored.
艺术疗法作为一种非药物性的医学补充替代疗法，已被用作对精神障碍具有良好临床效果的医学干预措施之一。然而，目前缺乏在临床情境中的详细系统综述。在此，我们在PubMed上搜索了艺术疗法，试图探索其理论基础、临床应用及未来前景，以总结其全貌。由于绘画在历史上一直被认为是艺术疗法治疗过程中的一个有用部分，我们重点关注了主要以绘画为媒介的艺术疗法研究。结果，共识别出413篇文献。在仔细阅读全文后，我们发现艺术疗法已逐渐成功应用于精神障碍患者，取得了积极成果，主要是减轻了精神症状。这些障碍主要包括抑郁症和焦虑症、认知障碍和痴呆症、阿尔茨海默病、精神分裂症和自闭症。这些发现表明，艺术疗法不仅可以作为一种有用的治疗方法，帮助患者敞开心扉，分享他们的感受、观点和经历，还可以作为一种辅助诊断疾病的方法，帮助医学专家获得不同于传统检查的补充信息。我们坚信艺术疗法在精神障碍的临床应用中具有巨大潜力，有待进一步探索。
