Positive experience in the use of art therapy techniques «Picture your illness» with the purpose of changing the internal picture of the disease

Currently, much attention is paid to the importance of studying the subjective features of the disease, noting that the nature of the patient's complaints, their analysis and changes in personality characteristics under the influence of the disease are no less important than the data of objective (instrumental) studies. The importance of the relationship of a person to one's health and illness, the cognitive and emotional components of these relationships, was shown to emphasize the importance of the internal picture of the disease when studying the mechanisms of the disease and the therapeutic process leading to recovery. It is shown that the character of the disease itself, and its severity, and the rate of development affect the formation of the internal picture of the disease; How sudden and unexpected was its beginning; This is an exacerbation of a chronic disease or acute pathology. It is proved that the influence of premorbid personal qualities and psychological characteristics of a person's personality on the development and course of the disease is as important as those changes in the psyche that arise in the suffering person under the influence of the pathological process. Art-therapeutic technique can be used as a diagnostic and therapeutic technique, as it allows to diagnose the internal picture of the disease; To separate man and illness; See yourself and the disease from the outside; Take responsibility for the current situation; Feel not a victim of the disease, but a master; Is a resource and increases the motivation for recovery.