This paper aims to examine several symbols thereof, and to study of
artistic activities. And they are resulted from observing how a teenager with
kleptomania impulse expresses his emotions during art therapy sessions. A
Year-3 junior high student suffering from kleptomania participated in the
research at his mother’s request. The student went through weekly
40-minute art psychotherapy sessions at the child development center and
the sessions were held a total of 83 times, from October 14th of 2011 to
September 26th of 2013. The produced art works were analyzed based on the
Jungian view of Furth’s(2002). The results are as follows. Through artistic
activities, the participant was able to freely express his unconscious
emotions, to strengthen his expression of fears, tension, and previously
depressed emotions, and to succeed in conducting impulse and self control.
Said student experienced a series of recession, dark, reception, and adaptation
periods during the artistic activities, and later reached a process of
symbolization where he was able to express his inner deficiency, voluntary
remedy, consolation and hope, and saw a formation of a new psyche.
Through artistic activities, the participant succeeded in self-healing by curing
his kleptomaniac disorder and game addiction, improving peer relations,
dreaming a new vision for his future, and finding his inner stability.