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Transfer Vol 2. is out!  

Read it by clicking the link below!

Tell us what you think at transferjournal@gmail.com

The open call for the articles for our next issue is out! Send your proposals by April 30th 2025.
The theme of the next issue is art therapy in the medical setting. 

In its second edition, Transfer brings the perspective of art therapy in the community to trauma and intercultural collision. The polarities meet. The destruction around us requires the powers of creativity in order to face and deal with reality, imagine and build the future.

Art therapy processes allow imagination and image communication to enter an active relationship. Active image creation, being in the image (in the sense of an embodied or diagrammatic image) and towards the image (in the sense of transference and counter-transference), reveals ideas, insights, and connections of different editions of a person who expresses themself through creativity, externalizes themself through art materials to the outside world. At the same time, the idea as "an internal image with the help of which a higher power raises us to its level" (Hamvas, 1995), touches both depths and heights that are rarely available in the dynamics of everyday life. The idea is that we can imagine the future even in the darkest night of the soul and that we can direct this image to the specified goal.

Indeed, art therapy strategies for dealing with stress strengthen, ensure (self- and mutual) understanding, and finding meaning. However, more valuable art therapy offers the exploration of a person's subconscious and the authentic inner world, which enables them not only to cope with the world around them but also to take an active role in it. By getting involved in life and showing agency, we change the instinctive reactions of the trauma that leaves us immobilized or hyperactivated, but in any case, isolated from the environment, be it benevolent or the opposite. How, then, can we reconnect the fragmented reality into a coherent one, and how does a person with a fragmented self fit into society?

Transfer Vol 1.
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Theme: Beginnings

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The first issue of Transfer, a journal dedicated to art therapy and mental health, was published in December 2023. For the first time, art therapists in Croatia and internationally will be able to communicate their knowledge and experience. 
 

We are opening a new communication channel among mental health professionals to enhance the quality of services, foster a better understanding between professions, and facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experiences. This issue explores and presents art therapy from different perspectives. Its goal is to promote art therapy and its better understanding in the public eye and among professionals. It offers a multifaceted glance at art therapy as a profession, as clinical therapy, and as a science. As we are looking at art therapy grow in Croatia, we are proud to present Judith Rubin's insights into the origins and evolution of art therapy,  explore the professional journey of an art therapist, examine the role of art therapy in the educational system, and consider the possibility of integrating art therapy into schools. Learn about working on trauma using an art therapy protocol, transforming traditional techniques into art therapy protocols, utilizing animation in addressing war trauma with children and youth, and adopting expressive therapy techniques for self-improvement during challenging periods.

Enjoy every row, and let us know what you think!

Warmly,

Mia Janković Shentser, editor-in-chief

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