Art and internal transformations: How to

improve the quality of lifeof those who survived war?

Halyna Tsyhanenko, Senior Research Fellow at Department of Psychology of small groups and intergroup relations, Institute of

Social and Political Psychology, National Academy of educatiocal Science in Kyiv, Ukraine,

Non-Governmental Organization “Ukrainian Society of Overcoming the Consequences of Traumatic Events” (Psychological Crisis Service)

Photo by: Ljudmyla Mytsyk, Ruslana Moroz, Vera Panurova

•War, combat stress and art.

•Types of the art therapy for militarymen

Art-methods for controlling affective states and interpersonal communication

Art-therapy without borders: militarymen, demobilised veterans

To paint pain at war: how do they do it?

Art of soldiers and mass media: the stereotypes

Breathing, self-expression and soldiers.

Censorship of consciousness and feelings expressions

•The art treatment: how not to harm

•I was angry, sad and I lost everything I treasured

Art-methods for controlling affective states and interpersonal communication.

•Self-irony and humor of militarymen: way to restoration after the combat stress

Drawing of the forms as a means of self-regulation

Non-verbal symbolic for emotional release and cure

•«Art therapy is a form of relief for both creative and non-

creative people and can help with serious disorders just as

much as with common stress».

Overcoming the creative barriers

" They overcame a lot and they have a lot to express"

Integration of mind and body

Questions!