Art as Therapy: Collected Papers

Contents

• Foreword, Lani Alaine Gerity. Part One:
• Introduction Personal history as artist and art therapist.
• 1. Credo, as an artist and as art therapist.
• 2. A commencement address given in August 1996 with a history and lineage of art therapy as practised by Edith.
• 3. Art therapy and language, a revisiting of Orwell's `Politics and the English Language', but from the art therapist's point of view, how our depersonalising language may effect how we think about people. Part Two: The profession of art therapy.
• 4. Exploration of definition, Edith Kramer and Elinor Ulman.
• 5. The unity of process and product.
• 6. Art therapy and sublimination.
• 7. The art therapist's Third Hand. Part Three: Clinical work.
• 8. An art therapy evaluation session for children, Edith Kramer and Jill Schehr.
• 9. Leadership and tradition.
• 10. Case history of Angel.
• 11. Art and the blind child.
• 12. Case history of Christopher.
• 13. The importance of lines, Kersten Kupfermann with a discussion by Edith Kramer. Part Four: Art therapy, ethology and society.
• 14. Reflection on the evolution of human perception: Implications for the understanding of the visual arts and of the visual products of art therapy.
• 15. Art therapy and the seductive environment.
• 16. The etiology of human aggression.
• 17. Inner satisfaction. Part Five: Art and art therapy.
• 18. The angels of St Wolfgang.
• 19. A critique of Kurt Eisler's Leonardo da Vinci.
• 20. Reflections on The book of Alfred Cantor: An artist's journal of the Holocaust. References. Index.