ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered on the preceding chapters of this book. The goal of the book is to increase the number of "lenses" art therapists are able to put into their clinical "frames", to multiply the number of "listening and looking perspectives" potentially available to each clinician, so that he or she can receive, perceive, and conceive as well as possible. Most people are attracted to art therapy because they like both art and human beings; and they tend to be curious, as well as compassionate and creative. Neuroscience dominates contemporary psychiatry, while cognitive-behavioral therapy currently dominates psychology as the approach with the greatest number of evidence-based studies to demonstrate its effectiveness. Moreover, regardless of the therapist's orientation, the patient comes to therapy with a theory of pathogenesis of his symptoms. Art in therapy is much more than the provision of a place for the inherent healing possible through an authentic creative process, however people conceptualize it.
