Rational Emotive Therapy & Art Therapy

Rational Emotive Therapy
All human behavior is mediated by cognitive variables. Depending on the cognitive process every people perceive the world in differemt ways.
Cognitive interventions allow people to understand and correct distorted thinking patterns and attribution. Ellis called this distorted thinking patterns as irrational ideas.
In 1956, Albert Ellis started a new movement with the name of "Rational Therapy",  that later  was replaced by "Rational Emotive Therapy".
Is an eclectic therapeutic model that links  biological, social and learning factors to explain human behavior.


Art Therapy
It is the psychological scope that studies the phenomena of artistic creation and appreciation from a psychological perspective. Have been very important for the development of this discipline Gustav Fechner, Sigmund Freud, the Gestalt school (within which highlights the work of Rudolph Arnheim), Lev Vygotsky and Howard Gardner.
It try to develop theories about creative and  perceptual behaviors.
Released the subjectivity of the person. It  is used to resolve conflicts. It is an individual experience, but with the ability to create lines of communication with peers. The artistic sensibility allows the person to express what it is, without the effects of social order.

Schuster, M. 1982. Psicología del arte: cómo influyen las obras de arte. Barcelona, Blume.
Leonidas Mansilla, 1956. Psicología del Arte. Barcelona, Paidós.