making unformulated experience real through painting painting and psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice as two ways of making sense.2018j clin p4文档.pdf

DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22580 R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Making unformulated experience real through painting: Painting and psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice as two ways of making sense Karen M. Schwartz Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sci- ences and Department of Psychology, Emory Abstract University I contend that painting, like psychoanalytic psychotherapy, is an Correspondence intersubjective process able to connect hearts and minds of painters Karen M. Schwartz, 1708 Peachtree ST NW, STE and viewers alike, because the creative process of making a paint- 400, Atlanta, GA 30309–7022. Email: kmschwartz740@ ing brings painters into more complex and more animated relation- ship with themselves. My own painting process is largely nonverbal. Interactions between me and my evolving artwork-in-process reveal experiences, thoughts, and feelings not yet formulated in words, and so, not available explicitly to conscious awareness until visual repre- sentation allows questions of meaning and intention to be thought about and elaborated in the usual, verbal sense. I describe how my particular painting practice provides an experiential frame for the creative process of self-articulation that goes on in psychotherapy, as well as how the physical and mostly nonverbal dialogue experienced