Creative therapy

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The term creative therapy is usually used for some depth psychological approaches in art therapy that want to conceptually differentiate creative design under therapeutic conditions from professional artistic creation, which is associated with the word art. The deep psychologically founded design therapy refers to theoretical models of psychoanalysis , ego psychology and object relationship theory as well as to the findings of the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung .

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The depth psychologically oriented design therapy goes back to the psychoanalytic theory formation, starting from the consideration of the design as “symptom and expression of unconscious inner processes” and connects to the analytical psychology of CG Jung and the concepts of a psychodynamically oriented art therapy based on it, as developed by M Naumburg was developed in America in the 1940s. The design therapy can conceptually easy with the Gestalt therapy be confused, which is not among the artistic therapies, but a special psychotherapy method is that the connection between body, mind and soul as whole shape perceives and sees the individual in relationship to its surroundings and understands.

In design therapy, artistic materials such as colors, clay, wood or stone are used creatively . This is not about the artistic activity itself with the aim of creating a work of art, but about the possibility to symbolize, process and integrate the unconscious . The unconscious can become visible through the way in which the client designs and through the result of the creative process. With a subsequent reflection, the creative therapy can contribute to a deeper self-awareness . The art psychotherapist Gertraud Schottenloher writes: "I get to know myself better through design and at the same time I can process what has happened."

Gertraud Schottenloher introduced “mess painting” as a creative therapeutic method, in which creativity is to be stimulated through spontaneous painting. The pictures emerge from an uninhibited sequence of movements within about two minutes, until about 10-14 pictures have been painted. In this repetitive process, unconscious material can emerge, be visible and processed.

The creative therapy is often carried out in conjunction with inpatient psychotherapy in the group. Of Elisabeth Tomalin the approach of a interactional art and design of therapy in the group comes, the group has a crucial role in the interpretation and interpretation of resulting images. It is the linguistic metaphor that "relieves" the client in therapy as a "parable" and opens up new meanings from images. Tomalin and Schauwecker establish a connection to the approach of topic-centered interaction according to Ruth Cohn , in which they both worked as teachers.

See also

literature

  • Gertraud Schottenloher: Art and design therapy. A practical introduction. 7th edition. Kösel, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-466-34226-6 .
  • Elisabeth Tomalin , Peter Schauwecker : Interactional art and design therapy in the group (= amounts to art therapy. Vol. 4). 2nd Edition. Claus Richter, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-924533-19-9 .
  • Michael Günter: creative therapy. On the history of the painting studio in psychiatric clinics. Bern, Stuttgart and Toronto 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CG Jung: Archetypes . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv 35175), Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-35175-6 .
  2. ↑ Michael Günter: Design as an expression of the innermost. The development of creative therapy from the reception of psychoanalysis and artistic modernism. In: Würzburger medical history reports 12, 1994, pp. 331–341; here: p. 338
  3. ^ Margaret Naumburg: Dynamically oriented art therapy. Its principles and practices. Illustrated with three case studies. Grune & Stratton, New York NY u. a. 1966.
  4. ^ Gertraud Schottenloher: Art and design therapy. A practical introduction. 6th edition. Kösel, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-466-34226-0 , p. 11 ff.
  5. ^ Gertraud Schottenloher: Art and design therapy. A practical introduction. 2nd Edition. Kösel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-466-34226-0 , p. 50 ff.
  6. ^ Elisabeth Tomalin, Peter Schauwecker: Interactional art and design therapy in the group. 1993.