ABSTRACT
Pailthorpe maintains that the pattern of human conduct and thought is established at birth, and it is only by a full knowledge of the way in which the infant develops its fundamental psychological pattern of life that the subject shall find the means of bringing into balance the mechanism that lack of understanding set awry. And then, when this knowledge is at hand, the subject shall be confronted with the task of formulating the therapeutic measures suited for any situation that needs to be confronted. Automatic art is a projection of psychic reality since in portraying the earliest fantasies of infantile life, it portrays what is real to the infant, a reality which is preserved and extended into adult life, though not in a form readily accessible to the adult. For this reason, Pailthorpe and her collaborator Mednikoff coined the term
“Psychorealism” as a definition of their approach. Psychorealism and psychorealist art are automatic creativeness that are entirely free from conscious interference and selection. They are the unhindered projection of psychic realities.
