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While there is a diligent research pertaining to the phenomenon of using art to heal certain psychological disorders, healing physical disability through art received less academic attention. This paper considers the importance of using art therapy to communicate the experience of physical disability. With reference to Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Memory in the Flesh and Chaos of the Senses, it is argued that artistic production is used as a means of coping with the traumatic memories of war disability. Through applying Aaron Beck's theory of art therapy to post-colonial literature, the paper demonstrates and assesses the way artistic creation is used by war disabled characters in both narratives to create a new type of ability out of physical disability.
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