​ According to Jung and other recent thinkers, mythology and aesthetic experience seem to promote an effect of amplification of consciousness: the individual comes to consciously touch a content of his personality that was unconscious until then. In other words, art allows the individual to know himself through powerful visual metaphors (Davis, 2020). In addition, myths contain a language that would activate the right brain, the seat of emotions, the only one where “therapeutic changes can occur” (Watzlawick, 1980). Moreover, museums and art galleries are free, non-stigmatizing places, thus encouraging speech and introspection. Marković defines aesthetic experience as a separate state of consciousness (2012 in Mastandrea et al. 2019) 

This method is the result of in-depth readings inspired by the writings of Jungian psychoanalyst Bolen and of deepening artistic and philosophical studies throughout my academic and personal journey. In an unusual psychotherapeutic session, I accompany the patient in the discovery of his own myth and in an elevation of self-awareness.

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Bowman, S. L. (2017). “Active Imagination, Individuation, and Role-playing Narratives.” Tríade: Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Midia 5, no. 9 (Jun 2017): 158-173. 
Davis, J. (2020). Active Imagination in Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27 
Paul Watzlawick, Le langage du changement, Édition du Seuil, 1980, p. 58. 
Mastandrea S, Fagioli S and Biasi V (2019) Art and Psychological Well-Being: Linking the Brain to the Aesthetic Emotion. Front. Psychol. 10:739. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00739.