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Edith Kramer – Art Therapy’s Muse Part 3
by David Henley & Jim Pruznick & Judith Aron Rubin
This video offers an overview of Kramer’s pioneering clinical work in art therapy with children and her unique, effective methods.
Historic photos at Wiltwyck School for Boys mark the beginning of art therapy in the US and introduce the film. We meet Kramer in live group sessions with children at the Jewish Guild for the Blind where she worked during the 1960’s–1970’s. She explains how these blind children’s perception of body image becomes unconsciously incorporated into their plastic art expression, revealing hallmark features of this disability. Kramer demonstrates that art therapy enables children to be themselves, promoting a greater sense of personal autonomy. Strikingly, she confidently entrusts the handling of adult tools to them, generating in them a sense of respect for safety issues.Finally, Kramer invites us to witness two diagnostic demonstration interviews. The first, with a young boy, is from the film “Art Therapy: Beginnings” made in 1975. The second was filmed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In both, Kramer uses her unique diagnostic procedure designed to reveal the complexity of an individual as revealed by each of three art therapy creations using the primary materials of art expression – drawing, paint and clay Psychological dynamics are elicited in each child through the three tasks. Kramer’s astute observational insights demonstrate the effectiveness of this method, which differs widely from many other art therapy diagnostic procedures. The depth and competence of training that the art therapist brings to the diagnostic interview clearly enables these uncontrived tools to be used evocatively and powerfully, particularly in contrast to diagnostic procedures that rely upon more formulaic rating scales.
Historic photos at Wiltwyck School for Boys mark the beginning of art therapy in the US and introduce the film. We meet Kramer in live group sessions with children at the Jewish Guild for the Blind where she worked during the 1960’s–1970’s. She explains how these blind children’s perception of body image becomes unconsciously incorporated into their plastic art expression, revealing hallmark features of this disability. Kramer demonstrates that art therapy enables children to be themselves, promoting a greater sense of personal autonomy. Strikingly, she confidently entrusts the handling of adult tools to them, generating in them a sense of respect for safety issues.
Finally, Kramer invites us to witness two diagnostic demonstration interviews. The first, with a young boy, is from the film “Art Therapy: Beginnings” made in 1975. The second was filmed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In both, Kramer uses her unique diagnostic procedure designed to reveal the complexity of an individual as revealed by each of three art therapy creations using the primary materials of art expression – drawing, paint and clay Psychological dynamics are elicited in each child through the three tasks. Kramer’s astute observational insights demonstrate the effectiveness of this method, which differs widely from many other art therapy diagnostic procedures. The depth and competence of training that the art therapist brings to the diagnostic interview clearly enables these uncontrived tools to be used evocatively and powerfully, particularly in contrast to diagnostic procedures that rely upon more formulaic rating scales.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Finally, Kramer invites us to witness two diagnostic demonstration interviews. The first, with a young boy, is from the film “Art Therapy: Beginnings” made in 1975. The second was filmed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In both, Kramer uses her unique diagnostic procedure designed to reveal the complexity of an individual as revealed by each of three art therapy creations using the primary materials of art expression – drawing, paint and clay Psychological dynamics are elicited in each child through the three tasks. Kramer’s astute observational insights demonstrate the effectiveness of this method, which differs widely from many other art therapy diagnostic procedures. The depth and competence of training that the art therapist brings to the diagnostic interview clearly enables these uncontrived tools to be used evocatively and powerfully, particularly in contrast to diagnostic procedures that rely upon more formulaic rating scales.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Length of video: 00:45:45
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-676-5
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-676-9
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Jim Pruznick was compensated for his/her/their contribution. None of his/her/their books or additional offerings are required for any of the Psychotherapy.net content. Should such materials be references, it is as an additional resource.
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Judith Rubin, a pioneer in the field of art therapy, is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She is a Registered, Board-Certified Art Therapist and a Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Rubin is the author of five books, including: Child Art Therapy, The Art of Art Therapy, and Art Therapy: An Introduction. She was the "Art Lady" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the 1960s.
A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, Dr. Rubin is retired from full-time clinical practice, and is devoting her energies to creating and disseminating films on the arts in therapy through a nonprofit organization, Expressive Media, Inc. Her other films include Beyond Words: Art Therapy with Older Adults (2004), We'll Show You What We're Gonna Do! (art with blind children, 1971), Children & the Arts (all of the arts with children, 1973), and The Green Creature Within (group art-drama therapy with adolescents, 1984). More about Judith Rubin's films and the organization can be found at http://www.expressivemedia.org.
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