Creative-expressive artwork as a phenomenological exploration of experience

Abstract: Background: The study of experience is both the object of study for phenomenology and a crucial part of the psychotherapeutic technique. In both cases, is critical to access the pre-reflective embodied aspects of experience and avoid remaining in its representational contents.Aims: This article describes how art-making as a plastic creative-expressive experience (PCE) can operate as a phenomenological exploration of experience and to delineate the consequences of such exploration for clinical practice and research. Methods: Conceptual argumentation based on the notions of experience and language were applied in order to an embodied approach to the study of experience; a comparative argumentation between art-based research and micro-phenomenology; Dewey's proposal of art as an experience (Dewey, 2005) ;and a review of literature on art therapy and phenomenology.Results: The usefulness and value of creative-expressive artwork in the phenomenological exploration of experience are...

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Creative-expressive artwork as a phenomenological exploration of experience ; volume:4 ; day:19 ; month:08 ; year:2022
GMS journal of arts therapies ; 4 (19.08.2022)

Classification
Medizin, Gesundheit

Creator
Gaete, María Isabel

DOI
10.3205/jat000020
URN
urn:nbn:de:0183-jat0000203
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Gaete, María Isabel

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