Painting therapy
The term painting therapy is used for creative therapy and depth psychological or anthroposophical methods of art therapy . They are based on different theoretical requirements and are linked to different methods of art therapy. Either the symbolic meaning and effect of the representations or the direct effect of the color on the patient and the painting process itself are in the foreground.
Procedure
Depth psychological procedures
In the depth psychological approaches of painting therapy, the painted pictures can be the starting point for a therapeutic conversation. Painting therapy is then a two-stage therapy process that includes painting and talking about the resulting picture. The resulting images are considered to be visualizations of the unconscious , which is manifested in symbolic representations that can be interpreted as archetypes , that is, “archetypes” of the human soul. Theoretically, depth psychological approaches of painting therapy are based on the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung , who assumes a connection between psyche and designed expression. The picture interpretation offers a methodical approach to the interpretation of the painted pictures.
The therapeutic effect of depth psychological approaches in painting therapy is ascribed not only to the analytical conversation, but also to the creative process itself as a possibility for self-creation. According to Ingrid Riedel , to which the corresponding approaches go back, the designer in painting therapy works with "painting directly on his self-creation, his self-healing and his individuation".
Anthroposophical procedures
In anthroposophic painting therapy, the process of painting and the effect of the colors are in the foreground. The first impulses for anthroposophic painting therapy came from Liane Collot d'Herbois in the 1930s , who worked with Margarethe Hauschka in an anthroposophical clinic in Arlesheim to develop artistic therapies on an anthroposophical basis. She viewed colors as beings that arise between the poles of light and darkness and contribute to the physical and mental constitution of humans. In anthroposophic painting therapy, watercolors or plant colors are used predominantly for painting, through which "the painting person can immerse himself in the painting process like no other painting technique" and experience the effect of the different colors. It refers to the theory of colors by Goethe , who derives the origin of colors from the polarity of light (yellow) and darkness (blue) as a "primal phenomenon". In his view, this is where the psychological effects of colors have their basis, which he describes as the "sensual and moral effect of colors". The method of "color meditation" developed by Rose Maria Pütz goes back to the color theory of Goethe and the related anthroposophical theory formation by Rudolf Steiner . The designer gives himself up to the effect of a color by layering it in transparent layers on top of one another and slowly letting it emerge.
See also
literature
- Liane Collot d'Herbois: Light, darkness and color in painting therapy . Basic information on therapy. Volume 1. Verlag der Kooperative Dürnau, Dürnau 2007, ISBN 978-3-88861-054-7 .
- Werner Kraus: The healing power of painting . Introduction to art therapy. 5th updated edition. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-49421-5 .
- Rose Maria Pütz: Art Therapy . An alternative to the regeneration of humans, Volume 1: The painting therapy . Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1981.
- Ingrid Riedel, Christa Henzler: Painting therapy. An introduction based on analytical psychology by CG Jung, Kreuz, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-7831-2366-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CG Jung: Archetypes . Edited by Jung, Lorenz. DTV, Munich 2001
- ↑ Ingrid Riedel, Christa Henzler: Painting Therapy - An Introduction on the Basis of Analytical Psychology by CG Jung . Kreuz Verlag, 2008
- ^ I. Denzinger: Painting therapy based on the forces of light, darkness and color . In: Anthroposophic Art Therapy , Vol. 2: Therapeutic drawing and painting . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2003
- ^ Liane Collot d'Herbois: Light, darkness and color in painting therapy . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1993
- ↑ Rose Maria Pütz: Art Therapy - An Alternative to Regeneration of Humans . Volume 1: The painting therapy . Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1981
- ↑ G. Ott, HO Proskauer (ed.): Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Color theory . Volume 1-5. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1992
- ↑ Rudolf Steiner: Das Wesen der Farben , GA 291.Dornach, 1980
- ↑ Rose Maria Pütz: Color meditation . Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1991