Polarities and Dualities: East West Perspectives in Art Therapy with a Refugee Woman from Central Africa

Abstract

This article explores the dynamic interaction between Western and Eastern ideas in art therapy with Laura, a refugee woman from Central Africa. It focuses on some ideas of Qi, health and well-being; of mindfulness, energy and somatic psychology, psychobiology and trauma as it is understood in art therapy with Laura.

Keywords

• art therapy
• qi
• psychology
• refugee
• trauma