Art Therapy: Preliminary Observations

Graphic productions as a diagnostic and projective device are clearly well known. Following Naumburg, we insisted on the therapeutic aspect of graphic productions with a personal emphasis upon the research aspect. However all these distinctions are fairly dogmatic and useful only for academical purposes; the graphic productions become ‘therapeutic’ as long as they ‘reveal’ something to the patient. These distinctions can help to avoid many conflicts between different schools of psychotherapy using the same basic productions (dreams, associations, graphic productions etc.) in different ways.