Abstract :
Art therapy is not an invention of modern times; but is a universal therapy method whose roots date back to ancient times. From drawing pictures on cave walls, embalming the deaths, making carvings of ceremonial masks to drawing pictures on parchment, painting, drawing graphics, creating forms with dough and mud in modern times have always been examples of art therapy throughout the history. The intellectual basis of art is directly related to Surrealism, Expressionism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, while art therapy focuses on the treatment of patients by reflecting the reality of the spirit with the forms and the lines. Connection of art therapy with ethics should also be emphasized. Without knowing those philosophical dimensions, it will not be possible to comprehend and implement the spiritual and magical deepness of pictures, lines and forms. Because art is a way of converting the ordinary one into the extraordinary. If art has the power to improve therapy, as a means of knowing and reflecting the spiritual one, then it can be counted as the best way to self-realization and comprehension for human. Art helps people to reconcile between endless contradictions with instinctive drives of the individual and the demands of the society. Phenomenology, as a modern philosophical movement which deeply influences 20th century psychology, is a critical philosophical method emphasizing the natural relationship between existentialism, axiology and epistemology, psychology, art theory and art and art therapy. Therefore, art therapy is a method of multicomponent philosophical dimensions.
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Art , Philosophy , Therapy , Catharsis , Psychology , Death
