ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what happens to the therapeutic relationship when arts media are introduced and considers some of the many ways they can help lead a client to breakthrough moments and change. A client's relationship with the image they have created seems, in part at least, to involve deeply unconscious processes. Art in general is a profound vessel for marginalised or unspoken truths, because it is a language with few universally agreed norms. Perhaps a theory from the arts therapies could help the author understand more about Barbara's experience of heightened charge. The idea of the embodied image is a useful way to explain how an art-image is able to deepen a client's therapy work. The image has a powerful ability to provide a client with a vision of their desired outcome. The chapter looks at some of the ways arts media have the ability to deepen a client's experience and increase the opportunity for breakthrough moments.
