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‘Creativity improves wellbeing’: art transforms mental health ward

February 21, 2017

We have all read about hospitals using art to help in the healing process.  Well, now a mental health ward in the UK is putting it to the test.  According to Sarah Johnson’s article in The Guardian: A psychiatric ward housing patients with schizophrenia in Springfield University hospital in Tooting, London, however, has undergone an artistic renovation. The once blank, colourless walls now house a variety of pieces from artists such as the Turner Prize-winning Assemble and photographer Nick Knight as well as by the patients themselves.

What I did find interesting is that not all of the patients like the art; however, according to one of the Drs., the fact that those patients are opening up and making comments is a step in the right direction.

Source: ‘Creativity improves wellbeing’: art transforms mental health ward | Healthcare Professionals Network | The Guardian

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