Art therapy
If we want to learn from our unconscious, we need to be aware of its suggestions and contents. Spontaneous drawings and paintings are an excellent way to gain that “secret” knowledge, which as it happens is available to us all.
According to Jungian psychology, individuation is a process of psychological integration, having for its goal the development of the individual personality. "In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated (from other human beings); in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology." C.G. Jung. Psychological Types
Individuation is a process of transformation whereby the personal and collective unconscious is brought into consciousness by means of dreams, active imagination or free association to take some examples or art therapy, to be assimilated into the whole personality.
It is a completely natural process necessary for the integration of the psyche to take place. Individuation has a holistic healing effect on the person, both mentally and physically.
Jung, C. G. Symbols of Transformation
Art therapy - a treatment the art of mental or psychosomatic disorders.
The methods of art therapy include the following areas:
- Arttherapy (expression of feelings and emotions through drawing);
- Phototherapy;
- Sand therapy;
- Music therapy;
- Dance therapy;
- Modeling and others.
When pictures emerge from the unconscious, they bear a tremendous amount of psychic information. The idea is not to decipher with accuracy what is within the picture—in order to predict the person’s future, for instance—but to ask concise questions as to what it may be communicating. This communication lays bare the unconscious and its energy.
Find and open into the deep wellspring of creativity within each of us. The aim is to reclaim ourselves and then help others reclaim themselves as actively playful, spirited, and conscious individuals.