Art and Creativity in Gestalt Therapy

Amendt-Lyon, Nancy

doi:10.5325/gestaltreview.5.4.0225

Cited by 25 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The students from the interviews believed that too little emphasis is placed on the content of emotional experiences and social skills in general in the study of art education ,and that it would be useful to think about their systematic inclusion in university didactics (Kay, 2020;Regev et al, 2015). The students from the interviews did not focus on strengthening these skills within the study (e.g., with the artistic motif/concept or collaboration with colleagues), but they designed the content themselves by bringing their experiences into the realisation of the art product or presenting them with a personal interest or challenge (Amendt- Lyon, 2001;Nests, 2015;Hogen, 2016).…”

Section: Tablementioning

confidence: 99%

Innovative Learning and Teaching for Quality Careers of Graduates and Excellent Higher Education: Arts Didactics in Higher Education

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Artistic expression makes an important contribution to a child's holistic development, fostering cognitive, social, personality, and problem-solving skills, and positively affecting physical, language and emotional development. The need for appropriate qualification of pedagogical staff trained for future professional activity in planning and teaching arts content at different educational levels is met by the higher education system, which strives to equip future educators and teachers with relevant knowledge in the field of arts content. Direct experience in the fields of art creation and the planning and teaching of art content contributes significantly to the development of students' own artistic expression and, consequently, to a more serious reflection on the content and organisation of art activities in practice. In doing so, the method of teaching art content is designed to develop students' understanding of the complexity of visual arts so that they are later able to design, organise and implement high quality art content.

show abstract

Section: Tablementioning

confidence: 99%

Innovative Learning and Teaching for Quality Careers of Graduates and Excellent Higher Education: Arts Didactics in Higher Education

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The goal is to discover and explore what one is experiencing and use this to inform choice and action (Greenberg et al, 1989). Experiential techniques (such as imagery, role playing and the multiple chair technique) are also used in Gestalt Art therapy (Rhyne, 1970; Amendt-Lyon, 2001; Schweizer et al, 2009) and art therapy in a broader perspective. These techniques are used so that patients will experience and express feelings and thoughts, clarify them, make links between recent events and experiences or perceptions from their childhood, and identify schemas.…”

Section: Art Therapy and Personality Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strengthening the Healthy Adult Self in Art Therapy: Using Schema Therapy as a Positive Psychological Intervention for People Diagnosed With Personality Disorders

Haeyen

2019

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article reviews recent theoretical contributions and studies about art therapy that attempt to capture aspects of healthy ego functioning and presents an inventory of art therapy interventions to strengthen the Healthy Adult. It discusses how art therapy can offer interventions that focus specifically and directly on the integration and growth of the whole person, and which interventions are suitable for this purpose in the treatment of people diagnosed with severe personality disorders. A link is made between the Healthy Adult as a familiar concept from Schema Therapy, and Positive Psychology, with its focus on well-being, strength and positive affect. On the basis of our present knowledge, available studies and experiences, art therapy seems promising in contributing to the development of Healthy Adult functioning. Art therapy addresses the different areas of healthy adult functioning. Specific art therapy interventions are discussed on a concrete level. Art therapy appears to offer ways to strengthen the Healthy Adult and helps people to free themselves from destructive patterns and to work on satisfying their basic needs as independent and responsibly functioning individuals in a positive connectedness with themselves and their surroundings. The strength of art therapy may be the experiential level and the appeal to the capacity to play, to flexibility, and to be creative. This makes experiences easier to reach, and developing from there into a Healthy Adult mode is possible in a manner that is more felt than thought. Creativity can be regarded as the ability of the Healthy Adult to be flexible and to find different solutions to a problem. This appeal of art therapy fits well the therapeutic goal of empowerment and well-being, which is at the heart of positive psychology. More research is needed to verify the effects and working mechanisms of art therapy interventions.

show abstract

Denkwürdige Augenblicke der therapeutischen Beziehung

Amendt-Lyon¹

Die Kunst Der Gestalttherapie

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Art and Creativity in Gestalt Therapy

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

Innovative Learning and Teaching for Quality Careers of Graduates and Excellent Higher Education: Arts Didactics in Higher Education

Innovative Learning and Teaching for Quality Careers of Graduates and Excellent Higher Education: Arts Didactics in Higher Education

Strengthening the Healthy Adult Self in Art Therapy: Using Schema Therapy as a Positive Psychological Intervention for People Diagnosed With Personality Disorders

Denkwürdige Augenblicke der therapeutischen Beziehung

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About