“Creativity, Adversity, and Resilience” examines a phenomenological inquiry into the art and narratives of artists of the Holocaust, featuring four survivors and one child of a survivor. Interviews with survivors offer their accounts of creating artwork in camps or ghettos during World War II. Phenomenological analysis revealed a psychological structure or essence of these artists ’ experiences based on identity, autonomy, comfort, hope, affirmation of existence, and witnessing. Relevant to contemporary art therapy practice, these functions and findings demonstrate how art can be used to cope with and counter various forms of persecution, duress, deprivation and adversity.
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