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Title Architects of art therapy : memoirs and life stories / edited by Maxine Borowsky Junge and Harriet Wadeson
Published Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 409 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Maxine Borowsky Junge, Harriet Wadeson --
Part I: Beginnings: Art Therapist Who Began Prior To 1960: Margaret Naumburg (1890-1983) : the mother of us all / Judith A Rubin -- Edith Kramer : art as therapy / Edith Kramer -- Don Jones : still waters run / Don Jones -- Elinor Ulman, 1910-1991 : short reflections on a long and productive life / Katherine Williams -- Hannah Yaxa Kwiatkowska (deceased, 1980) : family art therapy pioneer / Harriet Wadeson -- Elsie Ferrar Muller (1913-1996) : a calming presence / Judith A. Rubin --
Part II: Growth: Art Therapists Who Begain in the 1960s: Robert Ault : The art therapy lifeline, or, How was your practice? "It had its ups and downs," said the elevator man / Robert Ault -- Harriet Wadeson / Harriet Wadeson -- Judith A. Rubin : an ugly duckling finds the swans or how I fell in love with art therapy / Judith A. Rubin -- Felice Cohen (1919-2002): the dynamic Texan / Myra F. Levick -- Helen B. Landgarten : the mission / Helen B. Landgarten -- Janine Rhyne, 1913-1995 / Vija B. Lusebrink -- Gwen Gibson / Gwen Gibson -- Bernard I. Levy, 1924-1984 : a formidable presence / Harriet Wadeson -- Frances E. Anderson : a rememberance / Frances E. Anderson -- Rawley Silver / Rawley Silver -- Gladys Agell : my past, your future / Gladys Agell --
Part III: Expansion: Art Therapists Who Began in the 1970s: Shaun McNiff : creating a life with art therapy / Shaun McNiff -- Arthur Robbins / Arthur Robbins -- Vija B. Lusebrink : per aspera ad astra or the path of an art therapist / Vija B. Lusebrink -- Mildred Lachman Chapin / Midred Lachman Chapin -- Linda Gantt : an accidental art therapist / Linda Gantt -- Maxine Borowsky Junge : the unsolved heart / Maxine Borowsky Junge -- Bobbi Stoll : a rewarding thirty-year partnreship of right and left brain / Bobbi Stoll -- Shirley Riley, 1921-2004 : rememberances / Bobbi Stoll -- Cay Drachnik : Cay's story / Cay Drachnik -- Virginia M. Minar : memoirs / Virginia M. Minar
Summary The richness in the art therapy profession stems from those who pioneered its development. This book is a creative, spirited collection of personal histories of art therapists who have been prominent in shaping art therapy. These art therapists differ vastly from one another in backgrounds, temperaments, talents, approaches to the work, and visions of art therapy. Part I, "Beginnings," is composed of chapters about art therapy's pioneers who were practicing before 1960. In many respects, these individuals were the progenitors of art therapy. Part II, "Growth," covers the second wave of art therapy leaders who entered the field in the 1960s. Although art therapy was still little known at the time, this decade covers the establishment of the profession's first journal and the beginnings of art therapy training programs and ends with the organization of a professional association. Some who entered the field at this time were students of those in Part I. Part III, on "Expansion," is composed of AATA Honorary Life Members who began their art therapy careers in the 1970s. During this period, art therapy training programs proliferated, so that some benefited from newly-established formal art therapy education. Others had been working in related areas, such as art and psychology, and moved into art therapy in the early 1970s. In their various venues of influence, the authors presented here are highly accomplished visionaries whose dedication to the development of art therapy has been remarkable. Through their chapters, these "architects of art therapy" chart the development of an important mental health profession; they serve as an inspiration for those involved in art therapy today and for generations of art therapists to come
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed on August 18, 2023)
Subject Art therapists -- United States -- Biography
Art therapy -- United States
Art therapy.
Art Therapy
art therapy.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
Art therapists
Art therapy
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Junge, Maxine Borowsky.
Wadeson, Harriet, 1931-
LC no. 2006048173
ISBN 9780398084646
0398084645