ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the open-ended projects with trainee art therapists, other professionals who needs an introduction to the process of interactive art therapy, patient groups. Mainly of functioning out-patients with problems such as drug and alcohol addiction, eating disorders, depression and phobias. Self-boxes is a project which is useful to introduce at the beginning of a new group. It encourages members to focus on how they present themselves to the outside world and how they feel 'inside'. A group might decide to work on a painting for several days, or weeks, and the painting will become a visual history of its life and process. Body images are a shorthand term for a fairly complex task. It requires preparation as large sheets of paper, suitable for making life-sized portraits are required and sufficient space for working on them and fixing them on the walls.
