<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Art can help handle difficult experiences. Art therapy sessions (healing through art) have been recognised for years as a well-known and efficient method of treatment. At the same time, one can observe people’s tendencies – apparently inefficient in terms of their well-being (emotions, mood) – to create or experience art (e.g. watching horror movies, listening to sad songs, expressive writing about one’s ordeals). Many authors have described the way negative emotions are regulated. Their research has not, however, exhausted the subject in relation to art. In this paper I discuss the regulation of emotions through art. I am interested in the process of regulating affective experiences, particularly through expressive writing, and in the impact this way of regulation has on task-oriented functioning, especially cognitive functioning.</p></abstract>

Art can help handle difficult experiences. Art therapy sessions (healing through art) have been recognised for years as a well-known and efficient method of treatment. At the same time, one can observe people’s tendencies – apparently inefficient in terms of their well-being (emotions, mood) – to create or experience art (e.g. watching horror movies, listening to sad songs, expressive writing about one’s ordeals). Many authors have described the way negative emotions are regulated. Their research has not, however, exhausted the subject in relation to art. In this paper I discuss the regulation of emotions through art. I am interested in the process of regulating affective experiences, particularly through expressive writing, and in the impact this way of regulation has on task-oriented functioning, especially cognitive functioning.

An Artist Without Wings? Regulation of Emotions Through Aesthetic Experiences

University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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Art can help handle difficult experiences. Art therapy sessions (healing through art) have been recognised for years as a well-known and efficient method of...

An Artist Without Wings? Regulation of Emotions Through Aesthetic Experiences

Published Online: Jun 08, 2016

Page range: 94 - 103

Received: Feb 02, 2016

Accepted: Mar 20, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2016-0007

Keywords
Art, Creativity, Emotions, Affective regulation, Expressive writing

© 2016 Małgorzata Osowiecka, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An Artist Without Wings? Regulation of Emotions Through Aesthetic Experiences

Published Online: Jun 08, 2016

Page range: 94 - 103

Received: Feb 02, 2016

Accepted: Mar 20, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2016-0007

KeywordsArt, Creativity, Emotions, Affective regulation, Expressive writing

© 2016 Małgorzata Osowiecka, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Art, Creativity, Emotions, Affective regulation, Expressive writing