Thinking through images: notes on the therapeutic process and methodological connections with the work of an artist

Journal title SETTING
Author/s Maria Teresa Sagna
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/48
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 113-136 File size 392 KB
DOI 10.3280/SET2024-048004
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The author explores the phenomenon of co-creation of mental images and its effect within the therapeutic process, drawing from Allan Shore’s neuroscientific discover-ies and from Infant Research studies and highlighting some fertile methodological contaminations with the work of a well known Italian artist, Paolo Galetto. The em-phasis is on how thinking through images, as an intermediate step towards symboli-zation, enables a deep and meaningful contact between patient and analyst (be-tween right hemispheres) with evident progress in the therapeutic relationship.

Keywords: mental images, embodied mind, sensory sphere, proto-emotions, regres-sive capacity, therapeutic process.

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Maria Teresa Sagna, Pensare per immagini: note sul processo terapeutico e connessioni metodologiche con il lavoro di un artista in "SETTING" 48/2024, pp 113-136, DOI: 10.3280/SET2024-048004