Paolo Knill

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Paolo Knill

Paolo Knill (Paolo J. Knill, Paolo Jakob Knill, born July 11, 1932 in Neuhausen am Rheinfall , Switzerland ) is a Swiss scientist, artist and therapist. Until 1995 he was full professor for art and design therapies at Lesley University Cambridge USA. In 1994 Knill founded The European Graduate School based in Saas-Fee (Switzerland) and Valletta (Malta).

Life

Paolo Knill studied musicology at the University of Zurich from 1953 to 1958 . At the same time he studied aerodynamics and structural mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich . From 1959 to 1961 he studied at the University of Cambridge . In 1976 he received his PhD in psychology from the Union Graduate School in Yellow Springs, Ohio. From 1961 to 1965 Paolo Knill worked in Lima, Peru.

In 1970 he was Assistant Professor of Music at the Conservatoire in Winterthur and Zurich, and from 1973 to 1975 visiting professor at the Music Department at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. From 1976 to 1995 Paolo Knill was Professor of Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapies at Lesley University Cambridge USA. In 1995 Knill retired.

Services

In 1984 he founded the International School for Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS) in Switzerland with training centers in Canada, Denmark, Germany and the USA. In addition to his teaching and supervision activities in Europe, Israel, Canada and the USA, Paolo Knill also appears as a performing musician.

Awards

In 2001 Paolo Knill received an honorary doctorate in musicology from the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .

Scientific work

Paolo Knill is co-founder of the Expressive Arts Therapy , which he developed in the USA in the 1970s as a work and art-oriented form of artistic therapy . It is based on phenomenology , on system-theoretical considerations and the ideas of humanistic psychology .

In the 1990s, Paolo Knill introduced the method of intermodal decentering . The decentering method is based on system-theoretical considerations. It leads the client out of the narrowness of thinking and acting, which is connected with his problem, into a space of artistic and playful design. In this scope, sensual experiences can be made at work that are neither predictable nor plannable. The client can find "possible solutions" in the concretely observable "here" and "now" of the artistic process. In this context, Knill developed the “crystallization theory”, which, as he says, is fundamentally based on the phenomenological premise that in artistic therapy meaning emerges exclusively from the aesthetic material through which the therapist and client relate to one another.

In 1990 Knill introduced the term “the immediate third” into the scientific discourse and thus describes the moment when something new suddenly emerges or emerges from a therapeutic encounter.

Following the methodology of Expressive Arts Therapy Knill has a conflict management developed an artistic methodology for working with larger communities, which he calls "community art".

Fonts

  • Expressive therapy. Artistic expression in therapy and education as an intermedial method (= The Green Books. 3 Pedagogical Series. ). Ohlsen et al., Halle / Westf. 1979, ISBN 3-922169-12-0 .
  • Media in therapy and training . Eres Verlag, Lilienthal / Bremem, 1983, ISBN 3922169163
  • Minstrels of Soul, Intermodal Expressive Therapy . Palmerston Press, Toronto, 1993, 2nd edition EGS Press, Toronto, 2004, ISBN 978-0968533031
  • Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy . Coauthor with Levine, S. and Levine, E., Jessica Kingsley, London 2004, ISBN 978-1843100393
  • Art-oriented action in support of change processes . EGIS Verlag, Zurich, 2005, ISBN 3-905680-01-7
  • Solution art. Textbook of art and resource-oriented work . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-40159-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About - The European Graduate School. In: egs.edu. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ cf. Art-oriented action in support of change processes p. 20 f
  3. ↑ cf. Knill, Paolo J. (1990): The immediate remedy or the third in art therapy in: Approaches to art therapy research , ed. by Peter Petersen. Berlin: Springer
  4. ↑ cf. Knill, Paolo J. (2007): “Community Art”, the arts and the community . In: Eberhart, Herbert (ed.) (2007): Art works - art-oriented solution finding in counseling, therapy and support . Zurich: EGIS-Verlag

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personal data
SURNAME Knill, Paolo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knill, Paolo Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art therapist and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhausen am Rheinfall