Abstract
A number of researchers have pointed to the value of art therapy for patients suffering from psychosis. Even so, it still remains unclear how and why art therapy works. This article describes the course of an art therapy group for five women suffering from psychotic disorder and their statements of the usefulness of the therapy. The group focused on exploring the patient's psychotic experience expressed through her artwork. Hopefully, this study will contribute to deepen the understanding of the working mechanisms of art therapy. MethodA multiple single case study where the group process, the artwork produced and the semi-structured interviews of the patients were analysed qualitatively. ResultsAll the patients met our preposition that they would be capable of exploring their psychotic experience through art therapy. Two of the participants described how they, by the help of art therapy, were able to control their psychosis. The rest reported an improvement in mastering their psychosis. One of the participants described that the exploratory artistic work had opened a new ability for her to distinguish between her helpful spiritual experiences and her hallucinations and religious delusions connected to her psychotic experience.
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