What can art do for us emotionally?

About this episode

Lisa and Lauren discuss the emotional benefits of art with expressive arts therapist Cathy Malchiodi.

Send us Fan Mail In this rich and wide-ranging conversation, hosts Lisa and Lauren sit down with Cathy Malchiodi, expressive arts therapist and psychologist, to explore one of the most fundamental questions about human creativity: what can art actually do for us emotionally? Cathy draws on decades of experience to explain why art has been humanity's go-to healing tool long before psychology ever existed, and why the body, not just the mind, is central to that process. The conversation digs i...

People in this episode

Hosts: Lisa, Lauren

Guest: Cathy Malchiodi

Topics covered

• art therapy
• emotional healing
• human creativity
• expressive arts
• psychology

Keywords

• art
• emotional healing
• creativity
• therapy
• Cathy Malchiodi

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Organizations: expressive arts therapy, psychology