On the therapeutic use of Visual Arts

Authors

  • Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/dreh.vi19.20832

Keywords:

Aesthetics; Art Therapy; melancholy; therapy; Visual Arts

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.

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Author Biography

Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho, Universidade do Porto

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade de Coimbra (2012), Cláudio Carvalho participou em diversos projetos relativos à individuação da sociedade moderna, focando a diferenciação do meio terapêutico. Foi Professor Auxiliar Convidado da Universidade da Beira-Interior, onde lecionou sobretudo na área da Ética, da Bioética e da Política. Atualmente, é investigador do RG Aesthetics, Politics & Knowledge, do Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto, onde desenvolve o projeto de pós-doutoramento intitulado “A melancolia e a constituição do medium terapêutico”, beneficiando de uma bolsa da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, com a referência SFRH/BPD/116555/2016.

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Published

2021-06-23

How to Cite

Carvalho, C. A. S. (2021). On the therapeutic use of Visual Arts. DEDiCA. Journal of Education and the Humanities, (19), 195–217. https://doi.org/10.30827/dreh.vi19.20832

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