2. In art therapy
the creative process
is central
ART THERAPY
Creative Cognitive
Process process
3. Art Therapy (or Art Psychotherapy)
Utilises the creative process as its main therapeutic tool.
Utilises visual language.
Verbal langage is mainly utilised in order to associate the
content of the images to one’s life.
Art therapy helps to:
Confront a critical period in one’s life.
Express emotions and describe experiences that are difficult
to
verbalize.
Balance one’a rational and emotional sides
Establish a link between the conscious and the
unconscious.
4. Creativity is an attitude
towards life
According to Winnicott,
“It is creative apperception more than
anything else that makes the individual feel
that life is worth living. Contrasted with this
is a relationship to external reality which is
one of compliance, the world and its details
being recognized but only as something to be
5. Objectives
Re-establish the individual’s
creativity and capacity to
imagine, viewed as
components of psychic health .
Integrate dualities and
synthesize them into a
whole. .
Re-establish balance between
one’s cognitive faculties and
his (her) capacity to express
emotions .
6. Health
is
One’s capacity to contain
and integrate
dualities into a coherent whole .
