Art Therapy

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"Art therapy has come a long way since it was introduced into the psychoanalytic community in the 1940s. At first, it was used primarily as a tool for analysis by the therapist. Early practitioners felt that their role was to analyze the artworks on their own and to then guide their clients toward greater mental health on the basis of that analysis. In the 1950s, Viktor Lowenfeld became an important spokesperson for this approach to art therapy. Later, some therapists shifted their emphasis to "the integrative and healing properties of the creative process itself". ( As such, art therapy became concerned not only with the idea of helping clients to express their inner feelings, but also with the idea of helping them to work directly with the therapist toward an understanding and interpretation of the art itself."

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