The psychopathology of everyday art: a quantitative Study - World ...

Compared with untrained
therapy clients.
internal psychic worlds, dialectical integration of inside and
outside. Artwork of patients also seen as doorway to inner
world not accessed by words.
25 Michelangelo depression. The attempt to destroy the Florentine Pieta and immediate and
sustained creative effort of his last 10 years to recreate another
Pieta, whilst cutting it up, represent sublimation of the main
infantile conflicts of his life: loss of mother in early infancy and
abandonment by parents. Influence of these conflicts on his
character and creativity and lifelong depression and confusion
about the role of parental images and self-image.
26 Female painter and female
sculptor case reports to
illustrate Jungian analytic
concepts
Central aim to bring clients to a realisation of their creative
forces. Inappropriate reasons that many artists use to avoid
therapy. Jungian psychology considers the relationship between
the conscious and the unconscious to be creative and analysis
may help some artists overcome disturbances that hinder them in
fully realising their creative potential.
27 Vincent Van Gogh as artist Explores the psychoanalytic sources of the intensely personal
quality and powerful sense of communion with nature in
Vincent Van Gogh's art. Life was saga of disappointment,
disillusionment and failure. Dominated by spectre of stillborn
brother from early life, fantasy motif in later years. Art
replaced all other attachments, goals, ambitions or meaningful
involvements as van Gogh struggled with sense of self.
Immersion and devotion to nature may be connected to
dynamics of idealised cosmic image of nature substitutes for
idealised parent. So, art may serve as form of transitional
relatedness to the mother of his infant experience.
28 82yrs male artist stroke,
aphasic, paralysis
29 Artist not willing to use his
work as part of the therapy
Special measures to free the artist from preconceived notions,
pressures and expectations. Successful - renewed creative
energies and desires.
Illustrates some of the conflicts and complications inherent in art
therapy for artist. Patient used the therapist as a stimulus to
creativity, but as an artist he was not willing to use his work as
part of the therapy. He was unable to separate himself from his
artistic productions and it continued to be important for him to
suffer in order to paint and work.
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