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274 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress paintings, drawings, sculpture or artwork creations of clay. Furthermore, the therapist will ask the client to discuss the work of creation. Through this process, the client will be invited to open about all the emotions and feelings pent. Through this analysis, the therapist can explore feelings and resolve the issue in a constructive way, creative and innovative. The benefits of art therapy itself has been real and scientifically proven. In real terms this therapy has been felt by some traumatized children inAceh, where initially they are difficult to talk, but to paint themfinally can do with this efficiently.The same problem also delivered byWitruk in ArtTherapy workshop together EvelinWitruk, in Yogyakarta, onMonday ( 26.03.2012), in which the art therapy developed by Witruk previously been committed against children affected by the tsunami in Aceh, which emphasizes art to painting and drawing, it is quite successful therapy to restore (recovery) their psychic condition post-Tsunami 16 . While scientifically, a study from the University of Granada in Spain prove that this therapy could help overcome mental disorders. Elizaberta Perez, one of the researchers, following the development of 20 patients with acute mental disorders of the Therapeutic Community of the Northern Area of the Virgen de las Nieves Hospital of Granada for more than 1 year. The patient voluntarily follow the art therapy for 2 days a week. During the therapy, they adapted paintings by artists like Amedeo Modigliani, Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, as well as add their views as well. The patient uses to describe the paintings hidden desires, feelings, and emotions of their hearts and minds. During this process, he said, patients can express their feelings and their emotions. By doing so, they could not shake the feeling that they want and adjust to what they really want 17 . Related to the above, various figures ArtTherapy stated among others: JohnsonDR (1987) and Lev-Wiesel, R (1998) stated that in order to gain access to and encourage the disclosure of traumatic memories can be done through art therapy, because the visual and sensory modalities, can help clients in traumatic material is stored in the implicit memory, in the form of sensory memory is the same body that is not realized narrative memory. Besides a sound approach of the body can also be used to access material in implicit memory, but also more likely to clients. The making of art has a certain amount of time and control, and thus give sense to the client detention. 18 In addition, Johnson, (1987) also states that artistic expression can help clients who suffer Alexithymia, a condition related trauma inability to express his feelings in words, which can make it safe “transitional space” that can encourage clients to express traumatic memories. 19 Vera VarahBararah (2012) states Alexithymia is a psychological disorder characterized by the inability to identify and verbally describe the emotions and feelings experienced in himself like other people. Usually people with this disorder are more aloof, have less empathy skills, have great difficulty in understanding and responding to the feelings of others 20 . Meanwhile, Frye, B (1990) states the making of art can be a safe way for clients with dissociative identity disorder to “tell” their memories, in the past the transition that might change the personality that occurs when they try to report their memories verbally 21 . Another with Malchiodi, CA (2003) neurological researchers speculate that the causes for PTSD may rule out traumaticmemories of explicit memory storage, and art that can provide a bridge between implicit