ABSTRACT
The care in the community policy and the closure of the larger psychiatric institutions has had many implications for the practice of art therapy in the in-patient setting. The large studio rooms that often housed art therapy departments are fast disappearing. The ambience created in these studio rooms allowed the art therapy space to be an asylum from the asylum, a place in which the impersonal anonymity of the institution could be moderated by the creative ethos and culture of art therapy.
