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DESIGNING CONSTRUCTIVE THERAPIES IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH: POETICS AND MICROPOLITICS IN AND BEYOND THE CONSULTING ROOM
Author(s) -
Pakman Marcelo
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1999.tb01111.x
Subject(s) - constructive , painting , poetics , aesthetics , open sea , mental health , psychology , psychoanalysis , sociology , art , visual arts , psychotherapist , computer science , literature , poetry , oceanography , process (computing) , geology , operating system
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree well show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter “repented,” changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.