Arteterapia (Apr 2014)

Woman, therapy and resistance: potential spaces

  • María Antonia Hidalgo Rubio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ARTE.2013.v8.44434
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 0
pp. 13 – 24

Abstract

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The impact of political violence on individuals, families and communities can be extensive. As with the Saharawi people, suffering for 38 years the consequences of an illegal occupation by the government of Morocco. Common therapeutic intervention and especially art therapy can provide an effective means of expressing, making meaning of, and at times transforming the resulting experiences of fear, loss, separation, instability and disruption in these hostile

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