"A Plague of Tics"

At first I thought that this was a sad story about a kid that has OCD and a first hand account of what it was like.  After reading the whole thing and talking about it in class I realized that it had more humor in it than I originally thought.  I think that it was very interesting because he was explaining exactly how many peppercorns he counted or how tightly the mayonnaise lid was on.  It just made me think about what has to be wrong with someone's head for them to obsess of this kind of stuff.  I watched and read thigns about OCD before but this was a little more personal because it was almost like the reader was in his head.  I was also surprised at how mean people were to him; I guess that is why I thought it was a sad story.  Like I have a hard time believing that people could not realize that he had something wrong with him and they could not just sympathize and let him lick the light switch or touch the mailbox. 

Research...

1.  I intend to answer the question how is art therapy useful and why should it be used as a more common form of therapy.
2.  Art therapy can be used to treat a wide spectrum of people and should be a more common form of therapy.
3.  Art can be therapeutic for people and is a lot of the time a better way to bond with someone and learn about them rather than sitting them down in a room with someone they don't know and having them try to open up.  It can be used to treat head trauma patients, autistic people, unruly kids and any other issues dealing with the brain. 
4.  I need to find out more about how to get an art therapist.  I need to know how accessible they are so that I can see how widespread they are and if this is becoming a big thing or not.
5.  I think that some arguments could be that art does not affect people, it could not possibly show what's inside someone's head and that art itself is not very important in the modern world.

6.  Emery, Melinda J.  “Art Therapy as an Intervention for Autism.”  Art Therapy: Journal                        of the American Art Therapy Associated.  21.3 (2004): 143-147.  CINAHL.  EPSCO.  Web.  1 Mar. 2011.

Sutherland, Judy, Gwenn Waldman, and Carolyn Collins. "Art Therapy Connection: Encouraging Troubled Youth to Stay in School and Succeed." Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association 27.2 (2010): 69-74. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 1 Mar. 2011.

Baron, Penny H.  “Fighting Cancer With Images.”  Advances in Art Therapy.  (1989): 148-167.  Print.