ART IN EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH COUPLES AND FAMILIES

The authors describe and outline how art can be used in existential ps ychotherapy to help a couple or family uncover, discover, and make use of the meanings and meaning potentials to be found in marital and fam ily life. In existential psychotherapy with couples and families, art can be used to help the members of the relationship notice meaning pot entials in the future, honor meaning potentials that have been actuali zed and deposited in the past, and discover new ways to actualize mean ing potentials in the here and now.