SELF PORTRAITS: SEEING AND BEING SEEN.

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  • Patti Wallace Art Therapist, St Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA

Abstract

The author uses self-portrait drawing dyad process to assist a client imprisoned by an obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to become free. As the author engages the client in drawing her own portrait simultaneously she draws her own self-portrait. She then uses her drawings in her own therapy to discover characteristics about herself that had been hidden.

 

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Published

2014-06-19

How to Cite

Wallace, P. (2014). SELF PORTRAITS: SEEING AND BEING SEEN. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 3(1), 18–20. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/468

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