Art therapy in a children's community : a study of the function of art therapy in the treatment program of Wiltwyck School for Boys.
"Art Therapy, as evolved by Edith Kramer, engages the creative process, through painting, towards the goals of overall personality growth and rehabilitation. In presenting this remarkably original and lucid interpretive account of Art Therapy in a community of emotionally disturbed boys, the au...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springield, Ill. :
Thomas,
[1958]
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| Series: | American lecture series : the Bannerstone division of American lectures in psychology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Art Therapy, as evolved by Edith Kramer, engages the creative process, through painting, towards the goals of overall personality growth and rehabilitation. In presenting this remarkably original and lucid interpretive account of Art Therapy in a community of emotionally disturbed boys, the author through her rare facility with verbal as well as visual media, has herself accomplished a highly creative communication which actively involves the reader in moving and vivid experience. I would expect this book to appeal to a wide range of readers beyond those immediately concerned with Art Therapy because of the breadth as well as depth of Miss Kramer's approach. Throughout her exposition she moves freely from the theoretical to the practical and back again, livening and documenting her generalizations with case material, and deriving general principles from specific clinical evidence. She keeps in view both the larger social perspectives and the individual minutiae of the complex processes--artistic, educational, developmental, intrapsychic and interpersonal--of which Art Therapy is a composite"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231). |