Professional art therapy comes either from a university course or from a professional training course certified byQualiopi or by the state (RNCP).

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traditional art therapy is oriented towards psychotherapy, it is an artistic medium that interprets both the activity, the production and the speech of the person. (see article source)

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modern art therapy est turned towards the scientist "is the exploitation of the artistic potential in a therapeutic and humanitarian aim" - All about art therapy by Richard FORESTIER, edition Favre Pierre-Marcel Eds. p.10

 

contemporary art therapy, turned towards psychoanalysis "is a method whichpromotes creativity without aiming at the production of a work or an object and excludes any form of interpretation. (see article source)