Mondriaan’s paintings and analytic listening (TFP)

Steeman, MAB (Marike)
Steeman, psychotherapie/teaching/superv, Maastricht, Nederland

Submission type

Oral and Poster

Scheduled

Poster, Beurs van Berlage , Grote Zaal

Kernwoorden

counter transference, splitting, proj.identification

Onderzoeksgebied

Adults

Doelgroep

mensen met veel ervaring met het onderwerp

Workshop

Transference Focused psychotherapy (TFP) is a long term treatment for personality disorders based on the object-relation theory and primitive defenses (Melanie Klein / Kernberg group NY). Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944) evolved a special form of abstract art. When he died, his famous unfinished and multilayered work Victory Boogie Woogie was left in his atelier in NY. In this workshop we will find out from a TFP point of view along which remarkable path and ideas Mondriaan developed his abstract paintings. By means of analytic listening and the three channels of communication used in TFP treatments: the verbal, the non-verbal and the (counter-) transference we get insight into Mondriaan’s inner world reflected in his paintings. By reflecting on transference and countertransference phenomenons that Mondriaan’s paintings evoke, we will gain more consciousness of projective identifications and of our own feelings. This mine of information is necessary to treat people with personality disorders. The workshop stem from the paper No victory in Mondriaan's Victory Boogie Woogie held on the PsyArt conference 2017, University of Palermo.