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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.
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. Art therapy encourages creative expression through painting, drawing, or modelling.
Attention restoration theory (ART) asserts that people can concentrate better after spending time in nature, or even looking at scenes of nature. Natural environments abound with "soft fascinations" which a person can reflect upon in "effortless attention", such as clouds moving across the sky, leaves rustling in a breeze or water bubbling over rocks in a stream.
British psychotherapist Paul Newham using Expressive Therapy with a client. The expressive therapies are the use of the creative arts as a form of therapy, including the distinct disciplines expressive arts therapy and the creative arts therapies (art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, writing therapy, poetry therapy, and psychodrama).
Silver has been an honorary member of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) since 1983, and has earned awards for her research in the field in 1976, 1989, 1992 and 1996. Silver is an honorary lifetime member of AATA and has been further honored by AATA creating an award in her name, the Rawley Silver Award for Excellence.
Photographs of Cane's work can be found in the 1983 publication "Roots of Art Therapy" in the American Journal of Art Therapy. In her personal art, Cane created large pieces with the use of her entire body. One of her most notable pieces was in response to Bach's B Minor Mass. In which she used painted on a large-scale surface.
In 2010 she founded the Trauma-Informed Practices & Expressive Arts Therapy Institute based on the book Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body and Imagination in the Healing Process [3] to educate and promote the application of expressive arts therapy and art therapy towards the treatment of trauma in children and adults. The institute ...
Alexander, Charles, ed. (1995) Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts; Bernhard Cella(2012) Collecting Books: A selection of recent Art and Artists' Books produced in Austria, a YouTube Video that is part of the project. Bleus, Guy (1990) Art is Books; Borsuk, Amaranth (2018). The Book. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press