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This essay focuses on the connection between personal and artistic growth. The starting point for the essay is my position as a student counsellor at the University of Arts The Hague dealing with students that have personal issues that affect their artistic development. First I take a bigger view by focussing on personal growth in general, from a dialogical perspective. I also make a connection to mental health. With the concepts derived from this wider perspective, I investigate how they could play a role in art. I present material I gathered, about artists who struggle on a personal level with a possible effect on their artistic work. Also in regard to art, I make a connection to mental health. I look back on the reports from my conversations with students, and analyse the data of an interview I did with 14 students. To illustrate my argument, throughout the essay I present cases of students that contacted me during the past years.

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    • Title page
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Method
    • Artistic development in the context of education
    • Personal growth
    • Personal growth from a weak perspective
    • Scripts
    • Mental health, mentalizing
    • Artistic growth
    • Art and dialogue
    • Art and inner dialogue
    • The artist in reactive mode
    • Art and mental health
    • The interview
    • General conclusions
    • References
    • Supplements
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    This essay focuses on the connection between personal and artistic growth. The starting point for the essay is my position as a student counsellor at the University of Arts The Hague dealing with students that have personal issues that affect their artistic development. First I take a bigger view by focussing on personal growth in general, from a dialogical perspective. I also make a connection to mental health. With the concepts derived from this wider perspective, I investigate how they could play a role in art. I present material I gathered, about artists who struggle on a personal level with a possible effect on their artistic work. Also in regard to art, I make a connection to mental health. I look back on the reports from my conversations with students, and analyse the data of an interview I did with 14 students. To illustrate my argument, throughout the essay I present cases of students that contacted me during the past years.
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Summary

Introduction

Method

 

1 Artistic development in the context of education


2 Personal growth

2.1 Personal growth from a weak perspective

2.1.1 Connecting and identity

2.1.2 Dialogue and reciprocity

2.1.3 Inner dialogue

2.2 Scripts

2.2.1 Scripts in an object position

2.2.2 Scripts in a reciprocal position

2.3 Mental health, mentalizing

 

3 Artistic growth

3.1 Art and dialogue

3.1.1 Art/creativity as something that happens between people

3.1.2 Addressing the listener/viewer

3.1.3 Active role of the listener/viewer

3.2 Art and inner dialogue

3.3 The artist in reactive mode

3.3.1 Art and speaking directly

3.3.2 Art and expressing what cannot be verbalized, acting out

3.3.3 Art and narcissism

3.3.4 Art and pleasing the audience

3.3.5 Art and destructive entitlement

3.4 Art and mental health

 

4 The interview

4.1 In dialogue with students about specific topics

4.2 Comments that stand out from the perspective of my research

4.3 Analysis of the data and discussion

 

5 General conclusions

5.1 The listener/viewer

5.2 The artist, personal growth and artistic growth

 

References

 

Supplements

     Supplement 1: Topics for interview

     Supplement 2: Interview questions

     Supplement 3: Response on interview questions

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