Artistic project and welfare proyect, concurrences and congruities

• Main Author: Christophe de Vareilles
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2006-10-01
• Series: Arteterapia
• Subjects: Art therapy; Hospital; Learning of self; Care; Singularity
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARTE/article/view/9871

The paper affirms that art does not recover but can be therapeutic, and suffering can be an opportunity to create instead of an obstacle to the creation. Opposite to a conception of art therapy in hospitable context as workshop of leisure or space of distraction and withdrawal of oneself, a vision of art therapy appears as learning of self, as contact with the unacceptable, asocial and darkly of the own singularity. The art therapy workshop is a place of meeting and clash with self, taking advantage of a context without risk that contributes the artistic activity, unlike other spaces socialized of the daily life.