The use of drawing in psychotherapy
Drawing, its potential and its use have not yet exhausted psychological debate. Graphic activity has long been seen as a supple tool for understanding intellection maturation and the individual’s personality, thus contributing to the development both of intelligence tests and projective methods. Nev...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Universidad de Extremadura: Servicio de Publicaciones
2011
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| Sumario: | Drawing, its potential and its use have not yet exhausted psychological debate. Graphic activity
has long been seen as a supple tool for understanding intellection maturation and the individual’s
personality, thus contributing to the development both of intelligence tests and projective methods.
Nevertheless, despite the many attempts to identify precise diagnostic indicators, empirical research
has documented its lack of success in an extensive literature. In this connection, Boncori maintains
that graphic techniques, however much popularity they may now enjoy, cannot properly be termed
tests.
In short, there appears to be no positive connection between the particular features of drawing
and psychological characteristics. With their modest reliability, drawings seem to be an inadequate
means of legitimizing individual evaluations: emotional, cognitive, developmental and pedagogical
factor all interfere too much for indicators to be validated.
This paper will demonstrate that drawing can be employed in a variety of ways and for a number
of purposes, since – like any play activity – it has multiple functions.
And like play, drawings have a sole source: the imagination, or the capacity for fantasy.
Accordingly, what we are dealing with here is not a question of uncovering hidden meanings, but of
assessing the creative ability that the child, through drawing, can deploy. The idea of ferreting out
elements from the inner world must be replaced by the idea that drawing can help the child use play
to process his relationship with the outer world. Reality, in fact, takes on meaning when it can be
ideally transferred into the realm of fantasy, and this takes place through the innate capacity that the
human being has for self illusion, in the etymological sense of in-ludere, or “entering into play”. |
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