@inbook{9d0ad851bba74040b853feded615ea28,
title = "Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health",
abstract = "This chapter highlights the importance of aesthetics in psychotherapy and psychiatry both as theories and practices. The long-held and widely practised integration of aesthetics into the promotion of mental health proves the power of the aesthetic to influence the well-being of humans and their communities. The realization that aesthetic experiences have a benefit and positive effects on life has always led psychotherapists and psychiatrists to give their treatment programs an aesthetic-therapeutic touch. The chapter explains that therapeutic practice gives rise to an aesthetic experience for both the patient and the therapist alike. It cites the necessity to choose and thematize aesthetic phenomena that are capable of arousing people{\textquoteright}s spirits.",
author = "Martin Poltrum and Yuriko Saito and Michael Musalek and Kathleen Galvin and Helena Fox",
year = "2024",
month = jun,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192866929.013.1",
language = "English",
isbn = " 9780192866929",
series = "Oxford Library of Psychology",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
editor = "Martin Poltrum and Michael Musalek and Kathleen Galvin and Yuriko Saito",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics",
}