The Art of Mourning - Exploring the Impact of Artistic Creation Upon the Psychotherapist

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dc.contributor.advisorSolomon, Margot
dc.contributor.authorMcCall, Jessie
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-02T02:25:03Z
dc.date.available2021-08-02T02:25:03Z
dc.date.copyright2021
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-08-02T01:55:35Z
dc.description.abstractThe realm of artistic creation has long captivated thinkers within the psychotherapeutic sphere. A rich lineage of theoretical contributions considers the origin, nature and process of creativity through a psychoanalytic lens. Fewer contributions, however, consider the significance of therapist as artist. Through the intimate and experience-near methodology of heuristic inquiry, this study comprises a lived investigation into the interrelationship of psychotherapeutic and artistic practice. Rigorous self-search methods have enabled contact with new awareness, both explicit and tacit, of the author’s experiences as both freelance artist and beginning psychotherapist. These experiential understandings form the raw data of this study, coming into relationship with psychotherapeutic theory in a reflexive examination of the significance of lived artistic process to the psychotherapist. This research unearths the significance of loss in the creative and therapeutic experiences of the author. Mourning, and the facilitation of integrative inner representations are revealed as processes integral to transformative change in both artistic and psychotherapeutic domains. The development of a personal capacity to tolerate loss, destruction, and change, as well as the nature of resistance to such change, emerge as evident impacts of artistic experience on the psychotherapist. The understandings generated through this research are examined in their potential significance to the wider psychotherapeutic profession, including implications for training and clinical work. This study offers an embodied proposition: that opening toward loss through personal artistic practice may facilitate a radical recalibrating of self, a process fundamentally resonant with the psychotherapeutic endeavour.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/14395
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectPsychotherapyen_NZ
dc.subjectHeuristicen_NZ
dc.subjectArtisten_NZ
dc.subjectMourningen_NZ
dc.titleThe Art of Mourning - Exploring the Impact of Artistic Creation Upon the Psychotherapisten_NZ
dc.typeDissertationen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Dissertations
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Psychotherapyen_NZ
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