ABSTRACT
Aesthetic answering is a clinical and research technique which emerged in creative arts therapies (CATs) over the past two decades. This chapter describes aesthetic answering as an embodied research method via the example of the empirical study of Lange. As an arts-based research (ABR) method, aesthetic answering is thus also an embodied research method. This chapter focuses on aesthetic answering as one of ABR's central methods that is particularly useful in creative arts therapies, and frames the method in the context of embodied research approaches. Focusing on aesthetic answering as an intervention and a research method provides a prime example of how impression and expression merge and affect the ongoing process of creation. In aesthetic answering, the researcher was able to embody the artistic material that described what happened inside the participants when they created, thus collecting all of the descriptions of creation inside of herself, and later fruitfully transform them into the final performance.
