Jung reintroduced the mandala to the western culture. In 1916, he painted his first mandala and discovered his daily drawing corresponded to his psychological situation and psychic transformation. He found that the mandala appeared in dreams and that at times of psychic conflict, mandala drawing was self-healing and moved one toward wholeness. Jung noted that the object of drawing individual mandalas was to locate the Self, and he believed the integrative art form was a tool for the individuation process.