Kreativität und körperliches Ahnungswissen : Die Bedeutung der Intuition in der klient-zentrierten Kunsttherapie

Abstract

Creativity and body-related intuitive knowledge. The article raises the question what function befits intuitive knowledge in client-centered art therapy and person-centered psychotherapy. A selection of pictures and cases present the concept of client-centered art therapy which is built on Carl Rogers’ theory of psychotherapy and Eugene Gendlin’s body-related, phenomenological philosophization and his focusing concept.
The author encourages to work creatively using inner pictures in psychotherapy as well as to include the formative process into psychotherapy. The role of intuition and the presentient body knowledge on the way to finding a picture and in the acquisition of the implicit meaning of the piece of work are illustrated in a case study.
The person-centered psychotherapeutic setting is presented as a safe frame in which the client may creatively follow his intuition in order to then examine in confrontation with the completed work what messages and meanings this piece of work contains for him.