26isfam009 10.3205/26isfam009 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam0092 Meeting Abstract Skodlar Skodlar Borut B

University Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana, Slovenia

author Bundesen Bundesen Birgit B

Danish Center for Arts and Mental Health, Denmark

author Nathan Nathan Sebastian S

Danish Center for Arts and Mental Health, Denmark

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 009 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Workshop Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam009 TextArt-based interventions are gaining renewed momentum in mental health care. For example, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines for psychosis and schizophrenia suggest that creative arts therapies are effective in improving negative symptoms of psychosis. However, more research is needed to establish these interventions as part of standard treatment in psychiatry. This panel presents two distinct approaches: visual art therapy and participatory arts. Visual art therapy has emerged from clinical practice and maintains a well-established tradition led by trained art therapists, while participatory arts, which originated in the art world, has only recently been adapted for mental health settings, where professional artists lead interventions. The focus will be on the connection between art as a recovery tool for people suffering from psychosis from four perspectives: clinical, research, artistic, and patient.The panel comprises three parts, each presenting phenomenologically grounded research. Professor Borut Skodlar will present results from an art therapy intervention used in psychotherapeutic treatment for psychosis in Ljubljana. Birgit Bundesen, psychiatrist and founder of The Danish Center for Arts and Mental Health, will present research findings from a manualized participatory arts project. This Copenhagen-based pilot program is driven by artist-socentist duo's developping artist facilitated workshops with video, creative writing, and musical improvisation as adjuncts to standard care. The final segment features a creative writing workshop from the center's REWRITALIZE program, led by Danish poet Sebastian Nathan, who brings his lived psychiatric experience to the process. 0 0 0 0