["Art therapy could have the anthropological aim of opening up to the imagination, as a structuring and anticipatory future of a changing universe"]. / « L'art-thérapie propose à la personne "objet" de tourments d'être "sujet" d'une création artistique ¼.

Jean-Pierre Klein, honorary hospital psychiatrist and director of the French national institute of expression, creation, art and therapy, describes his discovery of art therapy or how the diversion of the imagination, through contact with the material, enables one to approach and symbolise one's problems without always being able to understand what the symbols evoke. Accompanied symbolisation in art therapy can indeed be sufficient. The evolution, from creation to creation, forms a transformation process without there necessarily being any interpretative deciphering. Interview with a pioneer of art therapy in France.