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Western Aesthetics and Mental Health Western Aesthetics and Mental Health
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1 Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health
Get accessProfessor Martin Poltrum, Faculty of Psychotherapy Science, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria
Professor Emerita Yuriko Saito, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
Professor Michael Musalek, Institute of Social Aesthetics and Mental Health, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria
Professor Kathleen Galvin, School of Sport and Health Science, University of Brighton, UK
Dr Helena Fox, MRCPsych, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist, Independent Sector, London; Arts-based Research, School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
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Published:20 June 2024
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Abstract
This chapter highlights the importance of aesthetics in psychotherapy and psychiatry both as theories and practices. The long-held and widely practised integration of aesthetics into the promotion of mental health proves the power of the aesthetic to influence the well-being of humans and their communities. The realization that aesthetic experiences have a benefit and positive effects on life has always led psychotherapists and psychiatrists to give their treatment programs an aesthetic-therapeutic touch. The chapter explains that therapeutic practice gives rise to an aesthetic experience for both the patient and the therapist alike. It cites the necessity to choose and thematize aesthetic phenomena that are capable of arousing people’s spirits.
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