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Salvation with art in personological interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

V.Y. Semke*
Affiliation:
Mental Health Research Institute, Tomsk, Russia

Abstract

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Salvation with art in contemporary conditions in practical activity of a physician begins from attempts to help to patient remove sufferings, bodily or mental. Here all the means are appropriate which result in recovery (medicines, exercises, restorative therapy, psychotherapy and possibly, art). The latter needs for theoretic and practical recognition as a healing agent. Creative activity is able to breathe new life into the person in need for mental help and stimulate him with such methods that were regarded previously as a privilege only of artists. Art represents by itself “an attempt to create another, more human world” (А. Moiré). During artistic sublimation instinctive impetus is replaced by visual one or by any other artistic-image-bearing idea. Creative activity as a form of sublimation allows expressing and by this response in art toward sexual, aggressive and other impetuses and emotional states of psyche. Healing abilities of art were recognized long before emerging the psychotherapy, they are associated immediately with catharsis. Therapy with creative self-expression is healing rather than treating: it strives at development by the person of his/her own relations with his/her Self and the world and in some meaning it is near to esthetotherapy using esthetic impact.

Type
Poster Session 1: Psychotherapies
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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