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Background: The study of experience is both the object of study for phenomenology and a crucial part of the psychotherapeutic technique. In both cases, is critical to access the pre-reflective embodied aspects of experience and avoid remaining in its representational contents.Aims: This article describes how art-making as a plastic creative-expressive experience (PCE) can operate as a phenomenological exploration of experience and to delineate the consequences of such exploration for clinical practice and research. Methods: Conceptual argumentation based on the notions of experience and language were applied in order to an embodied approach to the study of experience; a comparative argumentation between art-based research and micro-phenomenology; Dewey's proposal of art as an experience (Dewey, 2005) ;and a review of literature on art therapy and phenomenology.Results: The usefulness and value of creative-expressive artwork in the phenomenological exploration of experience are supported. As a key phenomenological method, phenomenological reduction and the reflective stance of observation are both analyzed within the PCE process. Likewise, the situated, embodied, and pre-reflective characteristics of PCE experience as an experience are highlighted along with its non-verbal expressive value for formerly lived experiences. Discussion: Future use of creative-expressive artwork for phenomenological exploration of experience is recommended, and its scope of application is discussed both for clinical and research contexts. |
