Here comes the first pilot study on RizbA and children’s drawings! Sarah Ladegast has investigated whether different developmental stages of children’s drawing can be measured using my rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA). Spoiler: They can. The study is freely available as Open Access with Open Data and Open Methodology. Read more →
My next print publication is out! In 2018 I held a workshop at the Sigmund Freud University Berlin at the congress Psychodynamics and creativity: Creative Arts Therapies in clinical fields of work. Now a conference proceedings has been published, in which you can also find my article. Read the preprint as Open Access. Read more →
For my fourth and last study within my PhD project, I am once again looking for German speaking participants, who have an academic degree related to visual arts or are studying in this field at least in their 3rd semester. As a thank you, you can win vouchers. Read more →
You like to draw or paint, but haven’t studied it? You don’t actually paint, but would like to try it out? You don’t like painting, but supporting research? Then participate and send me a picture you created! As a thank you, I am raffling two Avocadostore vouchers, each worth 20 euros, among all participants. Read more →
My colleague Johanna Masuch and her interdisciplinary study team at the geriatrics at Klinikum Nuremberg are conducting the large-scale PAINT study on the effects of art therapy. I am very happy to cooperate with Johanna. The current study uses the questionnaire I developed for image analysis and associated materials in terms of Open Methodology. Read more →
My rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) can now also be used by experts from other disciplines than the visual arts, e.g. psychologists, pedagogues and researchers. The validation study was carried out by Julia Jerusalem at the Witten/Herdecke University and is freely accessible as Open Access with Open Data. The extended questionnaire is now also freely available. Read more →
The conference proceedings on the first symposium of the Intercultural art therapy working group (AGIK) of the German association for art therapy (DFKGT) is published, including my article on psychotrauma and transcultural differences in pictures Read more →
Teaching good scientific practice includes priniciples of Open Science. Thus I am all the more pleased that two pilot studies of graduates now are freely available via Zenodo repository. Read more →
Validation study
English version of RizbA,
a quantitative questionnaire for formal picture analysis Read more →
