A source I found quite helpful when exploring this topic was “Art Therapy and Cancer Care”. This book outlines many aspects of the process cancer can put an individual through, and the way that art therapy helps elevate symptoms, particularly those that can be changed though state of mind. It is stated that art therapy enables symbolic expression of pain and because of this is believed to help manage it. The book references one patient who felt constant foot pain, he began working with clay in his art therapy session. He worked the clay into a slap and began massaging it, after a few moments he realized that it was like massaging his feet, and he didn’t feel any pain while he massaged the clay! I had heard of other instances like this, perhaps
