Arthur Robbins EdD is Professor of Art Therapy, Pratt Institute, and Director of the Institute of Expressive Analysis. He has published five books and many articles in a number of professional journals, and has served as a key note speaker and workshop leader in conferences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

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The author emphasizes transference and countertransference and introduces diagnosis as a means of offering indications for possible treatment rather than as a tool for categorization. His aim is to attempt to preserve the spirit and soul of the artist while applying modern day psychodynamic concepts to treatment practice.

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This text recasts Arthur Robbins' early work within the framework of modern psychodynamic theory. The creative intent of this text is to offer a structure that is not limited to one therapeutic model and to open up the doors for the creative art therapist to be effective with a wide range of patient populations.

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Preface. 2. Integrating the personal and the theoretical splits in the struggle towards an identity as an art therapist. 3. Becoming an art therapist. 4. Creativity development. 5. The use of imagery. 6. A creative arts approach to art therapy. 7. The play of psychotherapeutic artistry and psychoaesthetics. 8. Resistance in art therapy: A multi-modal approach. 9. Art therapist and psychic healer: Description of a joint workshop. 10. Clinical considerations. 11. Art diagnosis. 12. Diagnostic indicators in the artwork of borderline and dissociative patients. 13. Developing therapeutic artistry: A joint countertransference supervisory seminar/sculpting workshop. 14. Countertransference and the art therapeutic process with borderline patients. 15. technique. 16. Materials. 17. Institutional issues. Case Studies. 18. Clinical applications. 19. Art therapy with a floating fortress, Linda Joan Brown. 20. Merger and separateness, Kristin Stonehouse. 21. Regressive reintegration, Anne Reilly. 22. Play, art and photography in a therapeutic nursery school, Ellen Nelson/Gee. 23. The phantom's mask: A search for meaning, Michele M. Neuhaus. 24. A case of chronic childhood abuse, Patricia Savage Williams. 25. The use of film, photography and art with ghetto adolescents, Marbara Maciag.