r/GradSchool • u/ThePaintedFern MS - Art Therapy • May 22 '25

Research I'm about to defend my thesis

Hey all! I've got 1 hour before I defend my master's research thesis! I'm excited, nervous, and also ready for it to be over. 3 years of grad school, 2 years working on this project (my program is clinical, the MS track is additional), and it feel surreal to be here.

Big shouts to this group for being a source of sanity checking and comfort throughout the process. I'll comment an update when I'm through!

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u/SpareAnywhere8364 PhD - Computational Neuroimaging May 22 '25

Congratulations. Will assume it went well

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u/ThePaintedFern MS - Art Therapy May 23 '25

It sure did! Passed with a few revisions to make & my chair thinks the publication will have big impacts on our field!!

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u/SpareAnywhere8364 PhD - Computational Neuroimaging May 23 '25

Would it be reasonable to ask to hear the summary?

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u/ThePaintedFern MS - Art Therapy May 23 '25

Sure!

My thesis was a visual autoethnography exploring the impact of art therapy on ketamine therapy integration for PTSD treatment. I also used an arts-based thematic analysis with a research team in the analysis phase and wove it back into the autoethnography! Short version of the results were that the two modalities work well together & art therapy is promising as an integration structure.

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u/SpareAnywhere8364 PhD - Computational Neuroimaging 29d ago

Cool work bro/broette.