Topics of Master’s Theses in the Master’s Degree Program in Art Therapy

Topics of Master’s Theses in the Master’s Degree Program in Art Therapy

Started in 2023, completed in 2025

Beck, Alina (PS/SO)
Work-related stress factors in the clinical everyday work of art therapists 

Brand, Franziska (RM-UZ)
How do female experts assess the potential and limitations of art-therapeutic exposure for aggressive obsessive thoughts?

Buchholz, Dakota (SO-RM)
To what extent can digitalization be used as a potential means of providing people with sustainable support for their mental health challenges? 

Fenske, Pia (RM-LG)
Art therapy for art therapists – a self-experience report

Fronemann, Cara (HG-SO)
A qualitative interview study to identify the needs and requirements of people with mental health challenges and experts regarding an art therapy app

Fusek, Isabell (HG-PS)
Relationship building in art therapy: A qualitative observational study from the therapeutic perspective with palliative care patients

Gewehr, Franka (RM-UZ)
What are the potentials and limitations of interdisciplinary collaboration and methodological integration of EMDR and art therapy in the treatment of trauma-related disorders?

Grasemann, Janna  (HG-PS)
The significance of the therapeutic relationship in psycho-oncological art therapy with breast cancer patients

Heinz, Mirjam (PS-LG)
The potential of art therapy for emotion regulation in people with intellectual disabilities and a low level of emotional development

Hess, Verena (SO-LG)
On the experience of art therapy sessions: insights into gerontology

Justus, Silke (HG-LG)
The art-therapeutic potential of Basal Stimulation in gerontopsychiatry – A manual of practice-oriented methods to promote well-being

Kim, Ahrang (SO-RM)
The art-therapeutic effect of self-initiated artistic processes in an autoethnographic and transcultural context

Lehnhoff, Saskia – cohort 21 / completed in 2025  (SO-RM)
Intergenerational work – opportunities for encounter and development in art therapy

Maurer, Jan (SO-PS)
On the significance of outsider art for the development of art-therapeutic processes

Schmiederer, Lisa (PS-HG)
Views of the human being in art therapy – To what extent can the logotherapeutic and anthroposophical views of the human being serve art-therapeutic practice

Started in 2022, completed in 2024

Bidard, Hélène (RM-HG)
The effect of resource mobiles as a preventive art-therapeutic intervention on the sense of coherence of healthcare staff: A mixed-methods study

Blau, Celine (SO-HG)
Multisensory approaches in art therapy: Promoting cognitive and emotional development in primary school children through integrative approaches

Kaiser, Alexa (SO-HG)
Topic: What effect does a mindfulness-based art therapy intervention with body scan meditation have on excessive internet use? – a single-case study

Klimpel, Pauline (RM-UZ)
Effect of a one-time art-therapeutic intervention on the self-esteem of adolescents confronted with the challenges of emerging adulthood

Klisch, Gregor (RM-HG)
When the therapist paints… Taking over the creative process and palliative care – an exploratory study

Kramer, Madita (SO-RM)
Effect of receptive art therapy on the physical and psychological well-being of residents in a nursing home

Mattelé, Judith (HG-RM)
Art therapy in a women’s shelter – potentials and effective factors of the material clay and the creation of an inner safe place

Mickisch, Meike (RM-HG)
Textile handicrafts as an art-therapeutic group intervention for stabilizing patients with complex trauma

Noack, Mariella (HG-SO)
Reducing work-related stress among art therapists through visual transformation of an artwork and creating a mandala – An exploratory study on health prevention for art therapists

Pellicanò-Kittel, Ina (HG-SO)
Attachment needs at the end of life – An expert survey on the significance of attachments for patients in palliative care in the context of artistic therapies

Rentz, Laura (SO-HG)
The influence of material on the artistic works of outpatients at the Living Museum Wil, with a focus on the potentials and problems of material diversity.
A qualitative study

Roth, Lea (HG-SO)
The papermaking method in the context of therapeutic commitment to the work

Schlosser, Lisa (HG-RM)
What effects does art therapy in nature have for young adults in their life transitions?

Stephan, Dora (HG-UZ)
Strengthening the sense of coherence of queer students through the creation and publication of a zine – A mixed-methods study in the context of empowerment and health promotion

Waldmann, Justine (HG-SO)
Video and short film as an art-therapeutic method

Yan, Ling (SO-RM)
A mixed-methods approach to investigating the influence of art therapy on emotion and quality of life in 5- to 12-year-old children with leukemia in Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Zastrau-Wrycz, Maria (SO-HG)
Potentials of art-therapeutic methods within the framework of psychodynamic imaginative trauma therapy.
A qualitative study with reference to narrative interviews.

Started in 2021, completed in 2023

Altenburg, Bergeline Macenat (JM/RM)
Art-therapeutic aspects in the school context – Are there art-therapeutic aspects in the school context and what possibilities can be opened up?

Bernarth, Julia (RM/SO)
Testing an interdisciplinary intervention from art therapy and poetry therapy – A pilot study on self-expression and emotion regulation

Borgerding, Kathrin (SO/UZ)
Working with beliefs in art therapy – A qualitative study with people with depression

Buske, Maximilian (SO/JM)
What is the effect of using virtual reality as a low-threshold offering in art therapy?

Engel, Kyra (SO/RM)
Need for intensive nursing care as a risk factor for depression in old age

Hou, Jue (JM/SO)
Art-therapeutic project work in a transcultural context

Kinnen, Marie (SO/JM)
The effect of intuitive and monochrome painting with blue, red, and yellow in the Open Studio – Quantitative and qualitative research

Kramer, Tristan (RM/SO)
Drawings by Jewish children and adolescents during the Holocaust and postwar period – An investigation of their significance and impact

Lenze, Milena (JM/SO)
A health-promoting artistic program for women with refugee experience in temporary accommodation – An exploratory case study

Lux, Nicola (RM/JM)
An art-therapeutic guide for adolescents in pediatric dialysis

Nguyen, Mai Thao (SO/UZ)
The artistic process in prevention and health promotion for children – An exploratory study

Schmitt, Clarissa K. (JM/SO)
Art therapy with children of parents with mental illness – A practice-oriented expansion of concepts for promoting resilience

Schneider-Martens, Wulpekula (JM/SO)
Art therapy and pain – Single-case study on supplementary art-therapeutic interventions for chronic pain in people with disabilities

Weiss, Rike (RM/SO)
The significance of the final phase in art therapy – An interview study with female and male experts

Started in 2020, completed in 2022

Ach, Jonathan (HG/DW)
Meditative elements in art therapy – An analysis based on the mindful coloring of mandalas

Barth, Lisa (JM/HG)
Self-esteem-enhancing effective factors in material-oriented art therapy – A qualitative research approach for clarification

Chang, Yun (HG/DW)
Self-healing through tattooing and its effect

Ebermann, Britta (JM/HG)
Artistic research and its perspective for art-therapeutic practice – A theoretical analysis and practical approach

Fedler, Jule (DW/RM)
Self-perception and embodiment – An investigation of the self-portraits of Maria Lassnig

Flemming, Tobias (HG)
The concluding conversation of an art-therapeutic process – Comparison of two single-case studies with adolescents in child and adolescent psychiatry

Gielen, Magdalena (DW)
Textile handicrafts in art therapy with women with dementia

Grimm, Charlotte (JM/RM)
Therapeutic potentials of self-initiated photographic self-portraits – An empirical study in an artistic context

Kang, Bobin (RM/DW)
Art therapy as tertiary prevention for hospitalized adolescents with depression – Analysis of favorable factors and conditions for sustainable therapeutic success

Liliental, Annabell (RM/DW)
Visibility of clients of color in art therapy under the condition of a racism-sensitive therapeutic stance – A qualitative study

Noack, Alena (DW/JM)
Art-therapeutic potentials for working with female archetypes – A qualitative study with traumatized women with addiction disorders

Obkircher, Franziska (RM/DW)
Intersectional perspectives in art therapy – An examination of social power structures in art-therapeutic theory and practice

Rau, Johanna (DW/RM)
Digital resonance – An empirical online intervention study based on Gisela Schmeer’s art-therapeutic resonance image method

Reuter, Caspar (RM/DW)
Aspects of relationship building between art assistants and artists with disabilities, with particular consideration of the suitability of art assistance as a field of work for art therapists

Waldgenbach, Annika (HG)
Creative support for older and very old people to promote well-being – An exploratory single-case study in the context of home visits

Wünsch, Christiane (HG/JM)
Interfaces between art therapy and social work in working with people with migration experience

Zarah, Reinhard (JM/HG)
Between farewell and new beginnings – Art-therapeutic potentials for working with loss and grief – A literary study

Started in 2019, completed in 2021

Choi, Moonyoung (DW / JM)
Landscape painting with the method “Goethe’s theory of colors”:
Application of methodical landscape painting in anthroposophical art therapy

Ghanbari, Anna (RM /DW)
The significance of artistic creation following an imagination: A qualitative study

Heidemann, Deborah (RM / HG)
Somatic countertransference in art therapy – a cross-sectional study as a basis for comparison with dyadic psychotherapy

Hinze, Katharina (HG / RM)
Art therapy in a family’s grieving process – An exploratory single-case study on the role of art therapy in grief processes within family structures

Hofmann  now  Laustroer , Luisa (DW / JM)
Can the use of art therapy in a multidimensional trauma-therapeutic treatment concept contribute to the stabilization of patients with addiction disorders and trauma experience?

Ko, Jaein (DW / JM)
Analysis and classification of art therapy programs according to therapeutic effects for children with autism spectrum disorder and relationship building between art therapists and children with autism spectrum disorder

Lewandrowski, Maren  (HG / RM)
The relevance and effectiveness of art-therapeutic treatment for children with trauma-related disorders, especially post-traumatic stress disorder

Liu, Dandan (DW / JM)
The “new digital loneliness” – digitalization and art therapy

Mau, Annemarie (RM / DW)
Accessible communication in art therapy with people with intellectual disabilities

Pfeiffer, Sylke (JM / HG)
Education-oriented art therapy: Case studies on attachment representations in pictorial expression

Riemer, Michelle (JM / DW)
The circle image in accompanying painting for people in psychotic crises – a qualitative study exploring an art-therapeutic method

Schreppel, Eva ( JM / HG)
Flexibility in visual contact behavior in dialogical designs as part of interpersonal flexibility. A systematic replication study.

Schulte, Frederike (HG / JM)
Intervention techniques and image effectiveness – an empirical study and method comparison of anthroposophical art therapy with the LOM method

Zieger, Jana Zara (HG / RO)
The patient’s work as a multifaceted third party – A neurological perspective on the art-therapeutic treatment of schizophrenic psychoses

from cohort 18
Janßen, Beeke  (JM / RM)
Art in therapy – Survey of specific effective factors of art therapy from the patient perspective

Started in 2018, completed in 2020

Flach, Ann-Katrin (DW/JM)
Working title: Imagination work in art therapy – A supplementary treatment model for schema-therapeutic work with adolescents with personality disorders

Geese, Claudia (HG/SV)
Travel conversations – Experiencing relationships in creative dialogue (creative/artistic project with relatives of people with dementia)

Gerresheim, Ruth  (JM/RM)
The significance of art therapy for offenders, using the example of the emotion-related resonance image ritual method: A case report from psychiatric youth forensics

Hild, Julia (DW/RM)
The role of material as an interactive medium for art-therapeutic work processes

Homm, Anna (DW/RM)
Art therapy for children with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder – A case report on promoting emotional competence

Kühnert, Johanna (Elise) (DW/HG)
Color and experience – Design and evaluation of a mixed-methods study to examine the interindividual quality of effects of the colors red and blue in the context of art therapy

Mautsch, Leonie (RM/JM)
Body, image, and the “in-between” – Foundations and project design for intermedial collaboration in art and dance therapy

Schintgen, Saphira (RM/DW)
The effects of plant colors on the well-being of patients in psychiatry – from production to sensory experience and on to creative design

Schüßler, Svea (HG/SV)
Image-Resonance-Mail – shaping long-distance relationships dialogically – Exploratory single-case study with seven long-distance couples

von Riewel, Sabine (HG/RM)
Working title: Land art in art therapy – Exploratory single-case study on the effects of artistic creation in nature on mood

from cohort  2016
Kim, Hyo Jung  (SV/RM)
Design of a structured art-therapeutic prevention program for smartphone addiction in children with enhancement of social skills

Started in 2017, completed in 2019

Antwerpen, Leonie (HG/RM)
Spontaneous tree depictions in circle images by women in Cologne prison. An empirical study with regard to psychological stress in incarcerated women

Breuer, Julia  (RM /SV)
The stop-motion method and the theme of superheroines – A qualitative single-case study on the use of stop motion in art therapy using the Stop Motion Studio app

Derks, Lisa (SV/RM)
Art project for bullying prevention in schools: theoretical idea and pilot study

Klötzler, Franziska (DW/RM)
Promoting cultural participation through dialogical image reception in the museum

Machi Martinez, Talia (DW/RM)
The therapeutic potential of form drawing for adolescent patients with social anxiety disorder
An empirical-qualitative art therapy study

from cohort 2015
Ordoñez, Diana (SV /DW)
Study on interaction phenomena in an art-therapeutic project with refugee children

Plum, Maya (SV/RM)
Atmospheres in art therapy (working title)

Scafarella, Maria-Teresa (DW/ RC)
The effect of art-therapeutic work with plant colors on the activity and motivation level of depressed adolescents – Empirical study

Traut, Theresa (HG/SV)
Art therapy for borderline personality disorder – Single-case study exploring specific mechanisms of the material clay with regard to stabilization of the self.

Wanner, Susann (HG/SV)
Chance as a means for unfolding artistic processes in art and art therapy

Welge, Vivian (RM/SV)
The depiction of the house in the context of a separation situation – a single-case study (working title)   RM/SV

Master’s theses 2018

Bayer, Sabine: Grief processing in the context of art and art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Berndt, Yamila: Resonance processes in parallel drawing – An art-therapeutic single-case study (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Bindseil, Christi: “Home” as a transcultural concept – A comparison of children’s drawings (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Chien, Yi-An: Art-therapeutic diagnostics based on the first image – What influence does the gender of an art therapist have on image diagnosis? (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Döhmen, Mechthild: The sense of coherence as an effective factor in art-therapeutic support for pregnant women at risk of premature birth (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Flucht, Christoph: Art therapy with clinical neurological pain patients (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Geldbach, Hannah: Serial work in circle images with women in pretrial detention (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Köhler, Christine: Mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship in relation to art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Lee, Chi-Heng: The expanded artistic attitude in art therapy – Beuys’s concept of art and embodied aesthetics (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Lee, Eun Jung: Art therapy program with plant colors for people affected by burnout (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Michel, Johanna: Transference in art therapy and psychoanalysis – a theoretical comparison (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Neumann, Anna: Gaining time through artistic activity – An examination based on four currents (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Niedermark, Alina: Working with the unconscious and dreams according to C. G. Jung in the context of art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Pijorr, Frieder: Blind drawing in art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Schauenburg, Pia: The outpatient Open Studio – Reflections on the specific characteristics, opportunities, and modes of action of an outpatient Open Studio (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Schroer, Sarah: Conceptual development of receptive art therapy for alcohol dependence (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Van Norden, Johanna: Art therapy with people with intellectual disabilities (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Master’s theses 2017

Bornemann, Jutta: Art therapy for gambling addiction – Survey of art-therapeutic aspects in the treatment of pathological gambling (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Dreier, Friederike: Home visits in art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Drey, Ida: Art therapy as a responsive space of possibilities in transition situations (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Grimm, Niklas: The topic of ‘dream’ in art therapy – a comparative study of theory and methodology (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Kleinsorg, Anna Lisa: The fascination of graffiti sketches – graffiti sketches as support during adolescence (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Lenzhölzer, Christiane: Which art-therapeutic methods prove useful in promoting resilience in primary school children with a migration background? A behavioral analysis of two sibling pairs (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Mauer, Heidi: Effects of the self-motivated creative process on situations involving pressure to eat in female patients with bulimia nervosa (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Meier, Ailine: The influence of art therapy on self-concept in intellectual disability, with special consideration of receptive art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Meixner, Maria: How does artistic-therapeutic work influence the current well-being of staff in clinical palliative care (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Reiner, Virginia: Contacts in the image. Dialogical creation in art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Schmikale, Gesa: Dialectical-behavioral art therapy – “The effect of art-therapeutic methods on emotion regulation in patients with borderline personality disorder” (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Trillitzsch, Laura: Evaluation of the project “Sichtweise” based on a single-case study (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Winter, Miranda: Interior spaces in house depictions by children and adolescents on the subject of dream houses from the years 1989/90 and 1996/97 in comparison – an empirical study (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Ezhova, Yulia: Use of body paint in art therapy with children with cancer (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Master’s theses 2016

Bauler, Sophie: Tree depiction in the diagnostics of children with cancer (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Blank, Lena: Art therapy in palliative medicine – On the significance of individualized process guidance in the art-therapeutic support of a palliative care patient (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Bongard, Christine: Systematic study of women’s roles in fairy tales and methodological derivation in the context of art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Espinosa, Laura: House depiction, dyscalculia, and art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Gelhardt, Esther: Experiencing one’s self-image as a means of coping with illness in oncology (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Hensges, Elisabeth: Art therapy in pediatric oncology. A single-case study on art therapy with a patient who became blind later in life. (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Pöndl, Gabriele: Psychodynamic process-oriented art therapy as a specific form of trauma therapy. Clinical single-case study investigating the effective factors of psychodynamic process-oriented art therapy in the treatment of complex post-traumatic stress disorders and structural disorders (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Schlick, Angela: Like in a fairy tale? Media as symbolic sources for one’s own identity. A comparison between the Disney film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and the fairy tale “Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Ritter, Anna-Elise: Transsexuality – the search for identity in images (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Neugebauer, Huda: Art therapy for men – Development and evaluation of a gender-specific group concept for psychosomatic medicine (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Klein, Carina: Single-case study: Art therapy in oncology. A consideration of effective interrelationships in the art-therapeutic process of an oncology patient (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Master’s theses 2015

Dierkes, Simon: Examination of the self-image in the context of the environment in an art-therapeutic method for patients with addiction disorders (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Ellwart, Lilly: Violence against women – An art-therapeutic project for women with experiences of domestic violence in intimate relationships in Mexico (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Freisburger, Alexander: Emotion regulation through art therapy – An empirical pilot study (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Hallier, Marie-Christin: A process-oriented single-case study from palliative care: Design and evaluation of the art-therapeutic support of an “ALS” patient, taking into account the methods of mood diary, image dictation, and image gift (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Havrilla, Priscilla: Home is best. Aspects of resource-oriented art therapy with people with dementia as individual process support in a group. Testing a setting for stabilizing orientation and the sense of safety. (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Junge, Nadine: The image stenogram as an evaluation method – A comparative evaluation in the context of the symposium “Art Therapy in Palliative Medicine” (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Kirste, Sabine: Development and discussion of impulse-giving guided painting as a responsive method for people with dementia (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Krisch, Janina: The development, testing, and evaluation of an imaginative art-therapeutic method: The “miracle question” according to De Shazer (2008), a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis with regard to its mode of action (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Lunow, Alexandra: Emotional resonance in the therapeutic process: How do female and male art therapists deal with their feelings that accompany the process (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Potenza, Nicole: The symbolic meaning of the window as an image motif in art and its psychodynamic qualities in art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Salaw, Anna Viola: Effective factors of art therapy in children with self-esteem problems (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Shmeleva, Svetlana: The investigation of selected effective factors and conditions of the clay exercise “Me and my problem” in the art-therapeutic process (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Schlechtriemen, Birgit: Art therapy according to the approach of C. G. Jung in a social-pedagogically oriented institution (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Tetzlaff, Christina: Three-dimensional design with clay as an elementary sensory experience in art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Voigt, Marie-Luise: The house as an image motif in children’s drawings from different cultures (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Master’s theses 2014

Binge, Gesa: Art therapy in palliative family support – Client-oriented art therapy in outpatient support for (sibling) children of palliative care patients (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Herrmann, Kristin: A qualitative empirical study of children’s drawings – Media figures in art therapy and what art therapists need in order to understand them (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Hinckel, Lena: Everyday observations – A photo project – Development and evaluation of a phototherapeutic project with depressed patients in a day clinic (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Ilievska, Alexandra: Resource-oriented stabilizing interventions in art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Méndez, Diana C.: Comparative analysis of anthroposophical and depth-psychologically grounded art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Monzón Martinez, Roberto: Comparison of directive and nondirective art therapy approaches (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Otten, Yvonne: Basic assumptions of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy and their significance for art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Pelkmann, Elisa: A qualitative empirical research approach: Practical project on place perception in people with mental illness (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Reiser, Judith: Art therapy and sense of coherence (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Schmitz, Elvira: Development of a topic-centered group setting (palliative medicine) – Presented and evaluated within the framework of a single-case study (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

van der Schoors, Mary: Mindfulness and art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Veit, Verena: The patient-work-therapist relationship over the course of the process in the inpatient art-therapeutic treatment of a patient diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. A single-case study (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Wolschina, Kirsten: The role of artistic activity for the self – Single-case study in the context of forensic psychiatry (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Master’s theses 2013

Anton, Nadja: “Reinventing oneself” Art therapy as a means of activating resources and coping with crises (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Ariizumi, Mio: Meditation and art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Cesca Dreher, Agustina: Art therapy in palliative medicine: Creative processes between support and therapy, stabilization and confrontation (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Chiriac, Corina: An attempt to compare the understanding of the anthroposophical art-therapeutic process through findings from creativity research and neuropsychotherapy. (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Größler, Anna Marie: Recording and evaluation of image creation processes using video analysis. An empirical study in the “artig” studio – conducted with girls with partial performance disorders and different therapy stages (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Nixdorf, Dietrun: Observations of the basal-aesthetic stimulation of finger paint, sand, and clay in relation to motor skills – a single-case study (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Noguera R., Cristina: Development and evaluation of a mindfulness-oriented art-therapeutic training program for stress prevention in a company (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Nordmann, Pia: Drawings of dream houses by primary school children in comparison (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Schuchert, Katja: Art therapy and school (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Sousa Vaz, Claudia: The material in art therapy – Reflections on significance, effects, and possible applications based on a practical series of exercises (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Spilles, Stephanie: Cultural influences on image perception among art therapists (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Stutz, Tobias: Space in art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Tarcson, Theresia: Stop-motion film in art therapy. Development, implementation, and evaluation of a narrative setting in the context of child and adolescent psychiatry (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Wübbenhorst, Julia: Calligraphy and art therapy – Derivation of a method for the application of calligraphy in the context of art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Master’s theses 2012

Austin-Schmidt, Shelagh: Art and the military. Forms and possibilities of art therapy in the military field of practice – An exploratory study in the English-speaking world (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Bockelmann, Susanne: Aspects of object relations in art therapy – Investigation of a process course in the treatment of a depressed patient (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Grötschel, Christina: Spontaneous-associative work in art therapy with children with cancer – A single-case study (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Hasel, Sandra: Art therapy under the sign of the experience of otherness – A philosophical investigation of therapeutic transitions (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Hirner, Eva: “The monomyth in art therapy” – Design, implementation, and investigation of the effect of an intensive art-therapeutic intervention (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Hochgeschurz, Karin: The “central conflict” – Expression and treatment in art therapy: A psychodynamic-analytically oriented single-case analysis using the example of the extended hero’s journey (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Krause, Stephanie: Possibilities and limits of art-therapeutic work with people with dementia (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Malniece, Dita : Training sensory perception as a focus of art therapy with female borderline patients (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Napp-Zinn, Lisa: Development of an art-therapeutic diagnostic examination setting for people with a migration background in an outpatient medical psychotherapy practice for adults, a systematic field observation for hypothesis generation (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Fatema Nawaz-Kohlbecher: Art-therapeutic interventions for stress management in teachers – an empirical study (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Schildknecht, Lisbeth: Freedom for Rapunzel – Confrontational resonance image method in an art-therapeutic intervention for the treatment of agoraphobia (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Schneider, Johanna: The search for the inner helper – Art therapy as crisis intervention in work with a traumatized child (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Stephan, Franziska: Multidimensional work in art therapy – Anthroposophical painting therapy in dialogue with art-therapeutic approaches according to C.G. Jung and C.R. Rogers – a method-integrating approach (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichelt)

Master’s theses 2011

Akkulak, Sibel: Art therapy with patients with depression – Sensory training for a depressed patient to change sensory perception and creative expression (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Kurtnacker, Sabrina: “Encounters with images” – a diary project. Artistic work processes, forms and manifestations, and their significance for art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Neuhaus, Maja: Collaged lifeworlds – The collage technique in visual work with adolescents and its significance for art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Oepen, Renate: Art-therapeutic interventions for prevention and health promotion in people affected by burnout – an empirical study (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Ratiu, Kristina: The role of the art-therapeutic process in promoting a sense of identity in adults with ADHD (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Wernerus, Hannah: The child’s drawing as a historical-cultural and media-influenced document (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Wichelhaus)

Master’s theses 2010

Ehls, Kirsten: Resilience & spirituality – Qualities of a possible protective factor in the developmental process of resilience and its significance for art-therapeutic practice (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Henn, Indra: The therapist’s accompanying sketching as an expression of resonance phenomena in the art-therapeutic process (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Kempf, Isabel: From case report to case study – using the example of a depressed patient in a clinical context (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Lindtner, Ana: The self-portrait for exploring self-perception. A qualitative study with incarcerated women (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Master’s theses 2009

Bartholomé, Cornelia: Investigation of the visual expression of children with oncological and hematological diseases in the “Draw-a-Person” test and the “Free Image” (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Graf, Kathrin: What is an image? The concept of the image in art studies, art therapy, and psychoanalysis. – A hermeneutic and psychoanalytic image analysis in the context of art therapy (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Gruber)

Hellmich, Anna Sophia: The trauma-phase-related investigation of pictorial signs – using an art-therapeutic process from child trauma therapy as an example (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Linden, Katja: Color and color effects in image sequences in painting therapy with oncology patients (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Molitor, Johanna: The relationship between resilience and artistic creation as a means of reflecting on and processing traumatic experiences – illustrated using the example of sculptor Gabriele von Lutzau (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Simons, Anja: The phenomena of skin and skin disease with special consideration of art and art therapy – an attempt at formulating art-therapeutic methods (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Master’s theses 2008

Beseler, Nora: Similarities in first images of patients with organic brain injuries (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Heiermann, Elisabeth: Family self-images among primary school children – Effects of sibling position on the visual representation of one’s own family (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Jöckel, Eva: Child psychotraumatology The significance of art therapy within integrative treatment concepts (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)

Mursch, Beatrix: Water – “Movement in the image” (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Seul, Anne: Identity development and conduct disorder – an art-therapeutic single-case study – (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harlad Gruber)

Wagner, Margrid: Accompanying music in the art-therapeutic process and its resonance in the patient’s image (First supervisor: Prof. Sigrid Völker)

Zagorc, Irena: Art-therapeutic diagnostic work with patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wohler)