The role of drawing as a method of psychological analysis

Drawing is a language that, being an artistic expression, makes it possible to represent experiences or other types of experience. This type of representation at a symbolic level can condense everything that motivates the subject, his dreams, ideology and also that which distresses him. We can say that it is a representation of the psychic functioning of the person who makes it.

What do drawings teach?

In order to analyze a drawing following a psychoanalytic scheme, the most important thing is to contextualize it in relation to the history and experiences of the subject. The drawing made by the patient will provide data on his psychic evolution. By interpreting its traces, content, sequences, comments, gestures, the professional will find a way of access to the patient’s unconscious. In addition, through drawing, psychologists can help to elaborate traumatic or conflictive situations of the person as well as allow to deploy their creativity. It is important that children, and why not adults, draw, as well as any other form of artistic expression, not only because it is a way to reach the unconscious by analyzing what circumstances move their mind, but because through drawing their psyche becomes more complex.

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