This study focuses on issues related to perceptive experiences to specify what kinds of therapeutic roles art plays in art therapy. Academic discussions in art therapy, sofar, have been limited to verifying the effectiveness of art therapy while ignoring to examine art's specific therapeutic roles. Therefore, discussing the art's therapeutic roles will not only develop the theory of art therapy itself by providing tangible data to prove the potentials of art but also strengthen its scholarly identity by differentiating it from other theories of psychological therapies. Forthis, the paper will analyze art's therapeutic functions by study ingmajor concepts and characteristics of perceptive experiences from art therapeutic perspectives. The conclusions ofthe study will be the followings: perceptive experiences are not a passive process that factually records outside objects but a highly active and intelligentone, which can be defined as parts of general-accepted perception and art has been proven to activate one by providing energy, allow an easy approach toone's unconsciousness, help one lead one's life more independently through open and flexible thoughts and behaviors and consider and react to problems more efficiently by being more creative.
KeyWords:Art, Art Therapy, Perceptive Experience, Therapeutic Function