The problem of interpretation: Implications and strategies for the field of art therapy. Special Issue: Aesthetics and the creative arts therapies

Author(s): Plitsky, Rosalie

Journal/Book: Arts in Psychotherapy. 1992; 19: 163-175.

Abstract: Explores the relevance for art therapy of depth psychology, formalism, phenomenology, feminist criticism, Marxism, and deconstruction. The problem of conflicting interpretations and their resolution is discussed, and steps to a multidimensional interpretive strategy are outlined. Honoring the images presented by the client can best be served by incorporating 5 components of the interpretive repertoire when engaging with images. They are aesthetic attitude/phenomenology, formalism, the individual, cultural and social, and impressions of observations.

Note: relevance of & conflicts among depth psychology & formalistic & phenomenological & feminist & Marxist & deconstructionist interpretations in art therapy

Keyword(s): Art therapy; theoretical interpretation; feminism ; depth psychology; communism

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