ART-AWARENESS: A METHOD FOR WORKING WITH GROUPS

JUDITH A. RUBIN; PAUL LEVY

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Recently a 13 year old girl was using clay to make what she called "personality globs," shapes which represented, through the tempo of the process and the form of the product, intense feelings she had experienced. It was hard, she said, to put these feelings into words, to make sense out of them: "Sometimes I get so emotional. I just do the weirdest things, you know? . . . I don't know. Yeah, but there's this one desire-and I'll never get to really understand myself and understand these feelings-and what's causin' them." In attempting to cope with the violent upheavals which accompanied her voyage through adolescence, she had spontaneously come upon the use of a non-verbal medium as a way of both concretizing and trying to comprehend the changes in herself.

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