P.S. Carl Jung's Art Therapy Notes

"I managed to translate the emotions into images . . .I was inwardly calmed and reassured."

During the difficult years when Jung was writing The Black Books and The Red Book, he increasingly turned to art.

Art offered Jung a way to access his inner state—to make it visible. He wrote,

I managed to translate the emotions into images . . . to find the images which were concealed in the emotion—I was inwardly calmed and reassured.¹

Today art therapy is an accepted mental health practice, but in Jung’s day, it was novel.² He was at the vanguard of an important treatment. In fact, he found his art practices so powerful, he decided to use them with his own patients.

So join me as I explore my favorite of Jung’s art practices—it’s one that I’ve begun to incorporate into my own life. And, I have to say, I’m really enjoying it.

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