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This editorial discusses the premise that art therapy may function as a catalyst for mobilizing the healing potential locked within a person's neural circuitry and by inducing new learning at the structural level of the brain that is in a constant state of becoming. The ability of an empathic art therapist to creatively imagine into another's state of being not only is good for the brain but also is at the heart of effective and humane practice.
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