Multikulturalna kreativnost i liječenje
Multicultural cretivity and treatment

Summary/Abstract: Various cultures have been intertwined on the territory of Croatia, the autochthonous Croatian, as well as Central European cultures, i.e. Germanic and Hungarian, but also the Mediterranean, mostly Italian. That orientation was borne out by Julije Bajamonti (1744 -1800), a great Croatian composer and physician, worldwide famous polymath and polyglot. The creative and therapeutic approach was primarily discussed in his essay II medico e la música, in which Bajamonti emphasized the importance of the creative approach to treatment, presented the examples of insufficiency of the then bleak science, and stressed the value of musical and literary creative components, both in the preventive and in the therapeutic sense. The author relates those moments from the Croatian history and the activity of Julije Bajamonti with the contemporary development of art therapies and the multicultural meaning of creativity in treatment and rehabilitation. To that end, the work of Bajamonti is described in several chapters and some considerations on the importance of that knowledge in the development of the philosophy of the discipline and in the interdisciplinary field of art therapies are presented.

• Details
• Contents