Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological perspective on Art Therapy and mental disorders

a literature review

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Keywords:

Mental disorders, art and psychology, corporeality, phenomenology

Abstract

 Working with art therapy alongside the care of patients with mental disorders emerges as a different possibility from what has been perpetuated over the centuries, such as isolation, medicalization and therapies aimed only at changing or adapting the subject's behavior. Using art can promote the understanding of this subject in their way of being and expressing oneself based on artistic potential, therefore, the present article aimed to explore the benefits of art as a therapeutic resource in the treatment of patients with mental disorders. This practice consists of handling skills, feelings, emotion, sensation, perception, attention, thoughts and the entire cognitive process, aiming to manifest contents that are not reflected or invisible to others through the creative process, through the most diverse forms of expression , such as dramatization, dance, theater, painting, drawing, modeling, etc. In view of this, the present bibliographical research was able to merge art and psychology, from the phenomenological-existential bias, with the foundation in Merleau-Ponty's perspective, to encompass the perceptions, of the encounter between the manifestations and influences of the internal world towards the external in the face of the movements of ec-xistir, the transformations of being-in-the-world.

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Author Biographies

Diana Maria Sá Peixoto Pinheiro, Universidade Nilton Lins

Graduada em Arte educação pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas, com habilitação em Desenho. Formanda em Psicologia pela Universidade Nilton Lins. Email: peixotosadiana@gmail.com Orcid: Orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8696-4442

Jane da Silva Paes, Federal University of Amazonas

Mestranda em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas -UFAM.  Especialista em Psicologia Clínica de Base Fenomenológica pelo Instituto de Ensino Vision.  Especialista em Saúde Coletiva pela Faculdade Venda Nova do Imigrante (FAVENI).  Bacharela e Psicologia pela UFAM. Licenciada em Pedagogia pela Faculdade Única de Ipatinga (FUNIP).  Professora do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Nilton Lins (Manaus-AM). Preceptora em Psicologia na Pós-graduação em Saúde Pública com ênfase em Estratégia de Saúde da Família (UEA/ESAP). Coordenadora Adjunta da Liga Acadêmica de Psicologia Fenomenológico-Existencial (LAPFE/UFAM). Membro do Laboratório de Psicologia Fenomenológico-Existencial LABFEN (FAPSI/UFAM). Supervisora no Projeto   de   Extensão   Plantão   Psicológico   em   escolas   do   sistema público de ensino em Manaus.  E-mail: janedasilvapaes@gmail.com Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9683-8518

 

 

Published

2023-12-31