This book is a tribute to my mother, who died in 2006, and her brother, who is a successful Norwegian artist. It shows the impact of their upbringing together on his art and on their lives. Colorful paintings, poems and family secrets. The efficiency of treatment interventions for post traumatic disorder in children have not been researched upon extensively. Linda Chapman and fellow psychologists have, however, researched the effectiveness of art therapy on pediatric trauma patients. Early in the research, analysis showed that there were no significant reductions in PTSD (post traumatic...

This is a tribute to my mother, Else Margrethe Widerberg, who died in 2006, and her brother, Frans (Frantz Gustav) Widerberg, who will turn 80 in 2014. He is a successful Norwegian artist, famous for his colorful pictures of horses and riders. The book indicates how their upbringing in a dysfunctional family influenced on their lives and on his art. Critics basically has misunderstood his art, because they don't know about his upbringing in an incestual family. I know the story, and with that in mind it's not difficult to see that his art most of all is a kind of self-therapy. Although art...

This book is a tribute to two very unhappy kids once upon a time, my mother Else Margrethe Widerberg and her brother Frans (Frantz Gustav) Widerberg, who grew up with a father who was abusing them, fysically, mentally and sexually. Now Else Margrethe has been dead some years, and Frans is a very old man. He is a famous Norwegian painter, but the self-therapist side of his art hasn't been seen or recognized. He seems to have been confusing the critics, probably because the story of child abuse and incest has been a very big shame for the family. Definitions of art therapy vary due to its...