Outsider Art and Art Therapy by Cohen Rachel;

Author:Cohen, Rachel;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784504694
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2017-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Kramer and Naumburg

Despite active art therapy practices around the world, it is Edith Kramer and Margaret Naumburg who are both considered to be the “founders” of the modern discipline of art therapy in America, and each represents a different approach to using the arts in therapy. Kramer’s work is often used to define the field as “art as therapy,” given that she believed the process of artmaking was inherently therapeutic (Kramer 1971, 2001), while Naumburg, whose interest was in psychoanalysis, is often used as the figurehead of art psychotherapy.

Kramer, an active artist herself, crossed boundaries of art education and art therapy – indeed, her work was often published in journals and books related to each discipline. Perhaps this basis in education and her studio practice is what fueled Kramer’s emphasis on the aesthetic potential of art created in any circumstance: “To imply that there must be a sharp division between therapeutic creative activities and art is mistaken” (Kramer 2002, p.221).

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