ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how witnessing a client's image-making process is a specialised form of enactment countertransference. In art psychotherapy, therefore, elements of these processes are conducted through the art-making by the client, under the therapists gaze, and the subsequent exploration of the finished object or objects by the client and therapist working together. Territory with large wrapping paper is established on the floor, achieved by laying a large sheet of roughly torn brown wrapping paper on the floor in order to protect the floor covering. Using the brush is something new but the way she uses it is also very primitive. While the importance of process is acknowledged, the analytical focus remains mainly on the finished 'object' which itself is referred to as either an 'image' or as a 'picture', with the assumption that it contains some kind of revelatory content and aesthetic qualities.
