Creation and healing: an empowering relationship for women artists

Healing has conventionally been discussed in the disciplines of the medical sciences. Yet, everyone speaks of the ‘art of healing’. Today women artists in many media of expression are reclaiming their legitimacy as artists and as healers. Symbolically, through the creative arts, they are wresting healing away from the professionalization of the sciences and returning it to the arts where it once belonged when women were midwives and shamans, holistic healers of the mind-body totality.