An interview with Helen B. Landgarten, a pioneer in art psychotherapy, addresses how she came to work in this field, her training, her experience with Jungian therapy, current approaches to training art therapists, her own painting, and the role of the American Art Therapy Association today. (DB)

This case study describes three years of art therapy with a boy (age seven at the start) with borderline psychotic disorder. Changing themes over course of therapy are discussed and examples of child's work are included. Therapy was terminated after child had worked out fears and assumed an identity in which he could relate to peers in a normal…

United States and Canadian colleges and the art therapy education programs they offer, including graduate degree programs, graduate-level certificate programs, clinical training programs, special programs, and undergraduate programs are listed. Some overseas institutions and their programs are also listed. (JMD)

Art therapy and group discussion aimed at self-exploration and interpersonal learning formed the core of a group treatment model for 13 mentally retarded, emotionally impaired adolescents. Students were divided into two groups according to levels of functioning. Group structure and issues processed by group members are described in detail. (JW)

Recognition of the handicapped child's isolation from the environment is the basis for creative art therapy across handicapping conditions (physical disabilities, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, deafness, Blindness, speech impairment, cerebral palsy). Detachment may be overcome by self expression through drawings, paintings, and…