Acerca do uso terapêutico das Artes Visuais

Abstract

In line with the movement already initiated in artistic education, since the mid-twentieth century, the processes of artistic creation and experience have been integrated in therapeutic communication. In this article, we explore the constitutive and regulatory possibilities of art therapy programs, focusing on their historical origins, as well as their relational, material, and conceptual dimensions. We highlight the art therapy that privileges the therapeutic possibilities of the visual arts, showing how its intervention programs actualize principles established in psychoanalytic, developmental and enactivist theories. To this end, we focus on the proposal of the Expressive Therapies Continuum, which, due to its constructivist bases, reveals the variety and transformative reach of art therapy.