This publication shows how light-darkness-color therapy, for which
Liane Collot d'Herbois gave the creative impulse, provides the basis for
precise, complete, and reliable diagnosis of a patient's condition with
regard to various symptoms and their interrelationships. This makes
it possible, in collaboration with a doctor, to offer a therapeutic plan
adapted to an individual's special needs. Part 1 studies a key lecture
by Rudolf Steiner that allows us to for a basis for understanding the
human constitution in relation to its spiritual, soul, etheric, and physical
constituents, as well as the various currents that flow through them.
We thus discover a concept of pathology from two essential
notions—the formation of foreign bodies and the tendency to
an illness similar to congenital consumption—as well as general
elements of how to conduct a therapy. Part 2 shows how these
elements correspond directly to the concepts of the human being
in health or illness, according to the light-darkness-color approach.
Part 3 demonstrates—by analyzing pictures drawn by the patients
in charcoal and in color—how to establish a diagnosis in relation
to the two pathological tendencies described. Thus one can assemble
the elements of diagnosis and therapy for the different types of
depression in relation to the cardinal organs: the liver, kidney, lung,
and heart. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Elements in Light-Darkness-Color
is useful for artists, art therapists, medical professionals, and anyone
interested in the relationship of light, darkness, and color for the
human organism.