How creating art sustained me during the pandemic
Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
; 18(1):129-141, 2023.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2280286
ABSTRACT
In this paper, I describe how my painting practice restored and sustained a more coherent and vitalized sense of self during the isolation, loneliness and sense of unrealness, dislocation, and lost world order brought about by Covid. I describe how the intersubjective and physical process of painting, and the nonverbal, embodied experience of creating art re-situated me in a world that felt real and allowed me to know and reflect on emotional experiences not available verbally until represented in visual, concrete form. I present a brief clinical example to illustrate how my artistic practice during Covid decisively informed an appreciation of the importance of a co-constructed selfobject experience that recognized how essential a patient's own affirmed creativity was for enhancing her sense of vitality, agency, and possibility of positive change.
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Journal:
Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
Year:
2023
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