Abstract:
This thesis is part of the Practical Theology concentration area and discusses the importance of integrality in the human being's health condition. To support integrality not only as a principle, but in the complexity and multidimensionality of the human being, art therapy is used, which is the care of life through art. This modality was inserted in the list of SUS procedures by the National Policy of Integrative and Complementary Practices, in 2017. In a dialogical proposal, it carried out a systematic review of the literature with an interest in art therapy, natural spirituality, and health condition. Later, it used phenomenological hermeneutics to understand theoretical contributions. It maintains that integrality is affected by natural spirituality that is accessed by creativity and leads to self-knowledge, autonomy, transformative freedom and onto-anthropological empowerment. Empowerment by leading to the role of qualified supported self-care, reduces the global burden of the disease, adding quality to the years of life. Through the cognitive relationship between art therapy and theology, we seek to delineate the existential and transcendent character of the structure of the subject who looks at himself through the images obtained in spontaneous pictorial making. Image that translates the movement of life as a mediating form of theological experience. Thus, the empowerment achieved by the human being's natural spirituality enables choices with ethics and authentic experiences. Both art therapy and theology deal with existential issues in the search for awareness of the meaning of life. In this way, art therapy brings theology applied to culture to the health sector, updating one of theology's functions. In the vital cognitive creative process, the human being expresses processes of his existence in the form of mnemonic records of the existential matrix, when connected to the primordial time. Thus understood, the work of art does not represent, it is, it has its own communication from the purity of the primitive where the spiritual is found. When creating his or her art, the human being links the vertical dimension of their creating body from the spiritual depth to the horizontal dimension that represents their anthropological instance. This provides an opening of consciousness with reflections on being, acting and doing in the world throughout existence. In this way, what in the experience is self-organization in reception becomes theological. For the onto-anthropological empowerment, it proposes a health care model that shares traditional and conventional care in SUS, raising the quality of care, as well as the dignity of the human person. From the evidence and the theoretical foundations produced, art therapy is integrative therapy and social technology of high impact and long range. It acts as a facilitator in the health sector and in the intersectoriality for the common good and the effectiveness of social rights. Onto-anthropological empowerment changes styles of thought, drives the decolonial turning of being, knowledge and power, generates greater social well-being and collaborates in the realization of the right to health.
