The "thematic method" is an approach to imaginary picture-making in which theme sets the direction that forms the means of entry into the individual's life and world. This paper will verify the educational effectiveness of this approach as well as clarify its differences from "clinical painting probes" as the subject of painting therapy. As a result of considering the theme that would best elucidate these problems in light of themes cited for therapeutic effects, such as "all my worries" and "what troubles me" , I chose the theme"where stress goes" . Stress is grasped as suffocation, a sense of alienation, and a sense of obscurity, together with the pathological side of the mind rising from modern society;it is also a target of psychotherapy. In painting therapy, painting activities are conducted by giving themes such as "my family" , "me in the rain" , "the group and me" , and "the classroom" to juvenile delinquents, truant students and neurotic patients to expose sources of psychological discord andtraumatic psychological experiences in relationships within the family, society, and school, the awareness of which purges the emotions and creates a channel for stabilizing the mental system. The "thematic method" , by comparison, addresses the problems of how these people can regain their emotional freedom together with how they can become autonomous human beings and manage within highly civilized social and economic systems. In this respect, unlike clinical painting probes, "thematic method" probing is not limited to actual mediation of personal relationships;it extends to human and world understanding. Of course the acquisition of human and world images are conditions of intellectual training, however through this, the form of image defines one's way of living in the context of society and provides a clear outline of self(self-awareness reflecting the relationdhip with others and the world).
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