Abstracts

Introduction:

The present paper at the forefront of scientific innovation explores utterly purposefully eco-art expressions of cross-cultural and multi-layered nature observed as positive psychological conceptual models with correlative neurological underpinnings relatable to therapeutic opportunities in clinical settings.

Materials and Methods:

Based on selected examples of eco-literary writings and environmentally oriented artworks, representing at the same time aesthetic trends in modern times from romanticism onwards, this presentation adds the utmost relevant new knowledge to the field of mental science with the scope of highlighting the realm of positive emotions in that they are indicative of optimal human functioning within both dimensions of the rational and affective self.

In view of the fact that cognitive thought consisting in neural representations and overall mental activity of the individual with its emotional and sensory modalities can also be guided in the form of memories and sensations as therapeutic pathways, this paper exemplarily analyzes works wherein the insights on the planet Earth are at the center of artists’ and writers’ interest in global perspective.

Results and Discussion:

Hence, it is in various segments of modern artistic culture that are traced epistemologically elements of eco-art production and reception as creativity eliciting moments, potentially having healing properties, to indicate how to achieve goal-directed vision as well as emotional soothing together with emotion-attuned empathic capacity, stemming from situational and positive motivational factors within one’s psychological world.

The presentation underscores how such eco-artistic and verbal associations creatively expressed can lead to bettering self-perception and accruing mindfulness skills, also inciting the change towards post-traumatic growth. Since treating with equal attention the role of sensory stimuli configured as non-verbal emotional experiences in cognitive ideation and mental imagery, the paper places particular interest in the categories of the unconscious and personal oniric experiences as constructs in continuous formation, implementing such notions to showcase resonance with the sphere of positive emotionality.

Conclusion:

Intermedial comparisons will be made between literary and otherwise artistic creativity, also within an individual corpus, and the reflexive writings focused on the topics related to eco-art, considered in an ecopsychological perspective, when applying these expressive procedures and methodological paradigms to the domain of positive cognitive neuroscience.

Keywords:

arts; creativity; ecotherapeutism; neuropsychology; positivity