Individual Movement Therapy

There has in recent years been a big development in art therapy. It has been confined mostly to painting and modelling but reports are published of experiments in helping the mentally unbalanced also through music, dancing, speech, drama and mime. The emphasis in these forms is usually upon the act of artistic creation. To put the principle in the simplest most general form, it is that by getting people to create within the discipline of an art form, they will give an expression to their troubled personality which helps them to attain a more harmonious whole. The act of doing, rather than the finished creation, is the main thing. Dancing has been established therapeutically on a different basis from remedial movement. The former usually follows the general principle of art therapy; the latter often consists in devising