Muses. An Art Therapy and Artistic Creation project for social inclusion, with a Gender focus, in Mental Health

Abstract

This article describes the intervention and research of the Art Therapy and Artistic Creation project for Social Inclusion, from the gender perspective: MUSAS. Which has been developing since 2017 in the CRPS. Latina, in collaboration with Asociación Arte para la Vida and the ALETHEIA research project. Art, art therapy, trauma and emotional memory, from the Complutense University of Madrid. The participants are a group of thirteen women, with diagnoses of severe mental illness and who are users of the psychosocial rehabilitation service. The main objective of the project is: to create an open space of Artistic Creation, of a social and inclusive nature, that favors processes of Resilience and personal and group Empowerment of the participants, thanks to the expression and emotional management, through the possibilities that emerge from the creative processes.