64th Annual Conference
Thursday, March 8
Early Bird Open
Sessions
7:15-8:15 A.M.
Session 202
The Significance of Patients'
Drawings and Paintings in Group Psychotherapy
Presenter:
Revaz Korinteli, M.D.,
Professor, Tbilisi Mental Health Hospital, Republican
Psychotherapeutic Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia
Drawings and paintings allow
for a true decentering
from one's problems and the disclosure of some inner conflicts that
have yet to be revealed. The use of paintings and drawings as a projective
and intervention technique will be covered and their projective,
diagnostic and prognostic abilities with different kinds of
patients will be discussed.
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Utilize the
paintings and drawings as a projective and intervention technique.
2. Identify prognostic abilities of drawings and utilize them with
different kind of patients.
3. Analyze the valuable differences between paintings of patients
and utilize them as diagnostic tools
4. Identify painting as a technique to warm-up the group.
Course References:
1. C.G. Jung Man
and His Symbol Doubleday and Company Inc., Garden City, New York
1968.
2. Naumburg M. An Introduction to Art Therapy Studies of a "Free"
Art Expression of Behavior Problem of Children and Adolescents as a
Means of Diagnosis and Therapy. New York and London Teachers
College, Columbia University, 1973-225.
3.Furth, G. The Secret World of Drawings: Healing Through Art.
Boston. Sigo Press, 1988.
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