Clay sculpting of mother and child figures encourages mentalization

Arts in Psychotherapy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 319-327

  Or, Michal Bat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clay; Maternal representations; Parental mentalization; Sculpting process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLAY; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTAL MENTALIZATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77956342751     PISSN: 01974556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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