Paolo Knill

Knill was a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he helped to found their graduate program in Expressive Arts Therapy.

[4][self-published source] Between 1970 and 1975 Knill held assistant and guest professorships at the Conservatory of Winterthur and Zurich and at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

[1][self-published source] Knill received an honorary doctorate in musicology from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2001.

It leads the patient out of the constriction of thinking and acting tied to their problem and into a space of playful and artistic shape/form.

According to him, this theory is based fundamentally upon the phenomenological premise that in artistic therapy, meaning arises exclusively from out of aesthetic material, through which therapist and client step to one another in relation.

[6] In 1990 Knill introduced the concept of the ‘incommunicable third’ into scientific discourse in order to indicate that moment in which something new emerges abruptly or unforeseen from out of a therapeutic encounter.