The Self as Artist and as Art Work – receptive art therapy and the healing power of the “aesthetic experience” – An Interview –

This text is presentig “receptive art therapy” as a working modality of “Integrative Therapy” resp. Integrative Art Therapy. It demonstrates the manyfold possibilities of this approach for clinical treatment – e. g. PTSD-patient – but also for personality development. It affirms a therapeutic concept that is viewing life “life as an art” (Foucault) on the basis of an “hermeneutic of the iconic”, using the healing power of the fine arts in the service of the patients.