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An art therapist watches over a person with mental illness during an art therapy workshop in Senegal. Art therapy is a distinct discipline that incorporates creative methods of expression through visual art media. Art therapy, as a creative arts therapy profession, originated in the fields of art and psychotherapy and may vary in definition.
Expressive arts therapy is the practice of using imagery, storytelling, dance, music, drama, poetry, movement, horticulture, dreamwork, and visual arts together, in an integrated way, to foster human growth, development, and healing. [ 1] Expressive arts therapy is its own distinct therapeutic discipline, an inter-modal discipline where the ...
Margaret Naumburg (May 14, 1890 – February 26, 1983) was an American psychologist, educator, artist, author and among the first major theoreticians of art therapy. [ 1] She named her approach dynamically oriented art therapy. [ 2][ 3] Prior to working in art therapy, she founded the Walden School of New York City .
Natalie Rogers. Natalie Rogers (1928–2015) was an early contributor to the field of humanistic psychology, person centered psychology, expressive arts therapy, and the founder of Person-Centered Expressive Arts. [1] This combination of the arts with psychotherapy is sometimes referred to by Rogers as The Creative Connection. [2]
The diagram first appeared in Imagery and Visual Expression in Therapy by Vija B. Lusebrink (1990). [ 1] The Expressive Therapies Continuum ( ETC) is a model of creative functioning [ 2] used in the field of art therapy that is applicable to creative processes both within and outside of an expressive therapeutic setting. [ 3]
Harriet Claire Wadeson Ph.D., LCSW, ATR-BC, HLM (January 9, 1931 – January 26, 2016) was a pioneer in the art therapy profession, as well as an accomplished author, researcher, and educator, who established and directed the Art Therapy Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Art Therapy Certificate Program at Northwestern University where she taught up to her passing.
The American Art Therapy Association ( AATA) is a U.S. not-for-profit 501 (c) (3), non-partisan national professional association of approximately 5,000 practicing art therapy professionals, including students, educators, and related practitioners in the field of art therapy based in Alexandria, Virginia. It establishes criteria for training ...
Michael Edwards (2 November 1930 – 13 March 2010) was a painter, pioneer art therapist, analytical psychologist and curator of the picture archive of the artwork of patients of C. G. Jung. [1] He was also the first Emeritus Professor of Art Therapy at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. [2]