| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 343 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Myra Levick -- Preface -- |
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Part I: Early Days: Influences. Growing interest in the intersection of art and psychiatry ; Psychiatry and psychology, Freud and Jung ; Influence of outsider artists ; The International Society for Psychopathology of expression and the American Society for Psychopathology of Expression ; Supporters of art therapists ; Psychological tests ; Education and the arts -- The 1950s, the United States at the time of the formation of the art therapy profession. The Great Depression and the Works Progress Administration ; Post-World War II political climate : fervent anti-Communism ; Sigmund Freud and John Dewey ; Progressive education : a philosophy providing incentive to art therapy ; Development of the birth control pill ; The mental health climate -- Florence Cane (1882-1952) and the Walden School -- Margaret Naumburg (1890-1983) Creator of the art therapy profession and the first major theoretician. Maumburg's theory of psychodynamic art therapy -- Edith Kramer (b. 1916) second art therapy theoretician : art as therapy. Kramer's theory of art as therapy ; An example of the two theories in clinical art therapy practice -- Art therapy in the Midwest. The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas (Mary Huntoon, 1896-1970 and Don Jones, b. 1923) ; Art therapy in Ohio (Pedro Corrons, b. 1931 and Bernard Stone, b. 1934) ; The Buckeye Art Therapy Association -- Elinor Ulman (1910-1991) and the first art therapy journal -- Hanna Yaxa Kwiatkowska (deceased 1980) and the invention of family art therapy -- A brief history of art therapy in Great Britain and Canada. Great Britain ; Canada (with an interview of Kay Collis by Michelle Winkel, MA, ATR) -- |
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Part II: Art Therapy Developing: The 1960s : their influence on the development of art therapy -- Myra Levick (b. 1924) and the formation ofthe American Art Therapy Association. The establishment of the American Art Therapy Association : separate organization for art therapists -- Pioneer art therapists. Robert Ault (1936-2007) : the art therapy movement ; Harriet Wadeson (b 1931) : an eclectic approach to art psychotherapy ; Helen Landgarten (b. 1921) : the West Coast and clinical art therapy ; Janie Rhyne (1913-1995) : gestalt art therapy ; Judith Rubin (b. 1936) : peacemaker, writer and film maker -- Other art therapists who began in the 1960s. Gwen Gibson (b. 1923) ; Bernard Levy (1924-1984) ; Frances Anderson (b. 1941) ; Rawley Silver (b. 1917) ; Gladys Agell -- Qualities and patterns in the lives of pioneer art therapists. Artists from early childhood ; Fascination with people and their development ; Pursuit of education in art and in psychotherapy ; Role models and mentors ; Tolerance of outsider status -- Defining art therapy. Art as therapy vs. art psychotherapy ; Art therapy within a medical model ; Visual art versus expressive arts ; Community arts in art therapy ; Humanistic psychology definitions ; Definitions by the American Art Therapy Association -- |
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Part III: Art Therapy Expanding: Events of the 1970s and 1980s. Decade of the 1970s ; Decade of the 1980s ; Art therapy in the 1970s and 1980s : introduction -- Development of masters-level art therapy education. Self-taught pioneers ; Historical impetus for art therapy education ; Graduate-level art therapy education ; Art therapy registration and education ; Guidelines for education and training ; The argument about academic degree education and intrinsic creativity ; Years of education toward professionalism -- Art therapists of color and influence. Lucille Venture (1919-2006) ; Georgette Seabrook Powell (b. 1916) Cliff Joseph (b. 1927) -- Humanistic psychology and art therapy. History and definition ; Josef E. Garai (1914-1995) ; Mala Gitlin Betensky (1910-1999) -- Expressive arts therapy. Shaun McNiff (b. 1946) : the art therapist as shaman ; Arthur Robbins (b. 1928) : object relations art therapy ; Natalie Rogers (b. 1928) : person-centered expressive arts therapy -- Jungian art therapy. Carl Jung's ideas primarily take hold in England and Canada ; Jung (1875-1961) and art imagery ; Jungian art therapists in America and Edith Wallace (1909-2004) -- Other art therapists who began in the 1970s. Mildred Lachman Chapin (b. 1922) ; Vija Lusebrink (b. 1924) ; Linda Gantt (b. 1944) ; Maxine Borowsky Junge (b. 1937) ; Bobby Stoll (b. 1932) ; Shirley Riley (1921-2004) ; Cay Drachnik (b. 1924) ; Virginia Minar (b. 1923) -- |
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Part IV: Art Therapy in the Last Years: Culture of the times -- Contemporary issues in art therapy . The question of art therapy assessment 2nd assessment procedures / Frances F. Kaplan ; Multicultralism ; Centrality of the art in art therapy ; Registration, certification, licensing, and the differences ; Journey to an art therapy license in New York State / Ellen Green Stewart ; The research conundrum ; International art therapy -- The profession of art therapy : milestones. Expansion and awareness ; What is an art therapist? ; Milestones ; Expansion of art therapy literature ; Expansion of research ; Advances in neuroscience ; Education, licensing and employment ; Computers and art therapy ; Conclusions |
| Summary |
Over the years, art therapy pioneers have contributed towards the informal and formal beginnings of this fascinating and innovative profession. The development of the art therapy profession concerns a special breed of person who discovered the profound and unique power of the integration of art and psychology and had the energy and drive to create the new field. Important movements and milestones are highlighted including the dilemmas and crucial events of art therapy's evolution. Chronologies and study questions for discussion appear at the end of most chapters. Finally, the book presents issues essential to the field today such as art therapy registration, certification and licensing, art therapy assessment procedures, research, multiculturalism and art therapy as an international phenomenon. This text will be of primary interest to art therapists and students, to art educators and historians, and to those interested in how mental health disciplines evolve |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Each chapter includes a list of important dates and events as well as study questions |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed on January 4, 2024) |
| Subject |
Art therapy -- United States -- History
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Art Therapy -- history
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History, 20th Century
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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Art therapy
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Kunsttherapie.
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Geschiedenis.
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010008255 |
| ISBN |
9780398084448 |
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0398084440 |
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