Arts and health: Active factors and a theory framework of embodied aesthetics

Arts in Psychotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue , 2017, Pages 85-91

  Koch, Sabine C ^a,b  

^a Alanus University Alfter   (Germany)

^b SRH UNIVERSITY HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active factors; Aesthetic experience; Art making; Arts therapies; Embodied aesthetics; Health outcomes; Therapeutic mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ART; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ESTHETICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 85018548067     PISSN: 01974556     EISSN: 18735878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2017.02.002     Document Type: Article

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