Task - 2 a page from an e-resource

My chosen e-resource is from the, "Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Date: February 1, 1951." I feel that the best way to understand the views at the time of mental health is to research the way psychologists viewed the different aspects of mental health and at this time psychology its self was heavily influenced by the Americans. i felt that this was a good article to start with as it not only deals with schizophrenia, which it is believed that Theo lived with but also in relation to art as therapy.

 

Review of "Schizophrenic art: Its meaning in psychotherapy".

Authors:

No authorship indicated


Source:Journal of Consulting Psychology, Vol 15(1), Feb, 1951. pp. 87
Publisher:US: American Psychological Association US: American Association for Applied Psychology

Other Publishers:

                                           US: Dentan Printing Company

US: Science Press Printing Company
Reviewed Item:Naumburg, Margaret (1950). Schizophrenic art: Its meaning in psychotherapy; 
New York: Grune & Stratton, 1950. Pp. viii + 247. $10.00

ISSN:0095-8891 (Print)

Abstract:

Reviews the book, "Schizophrenic art: Its meaning in psychotherapy" by Margaret Naumburg (1950). This entire volume is devoted to a detailed discussion of the progress of two schizophrenic girls, eighteen and twenty-five years of age, in art therapy, and to a brief review of the literature of neurotic and psychotic art. The reporting of the clinical material is dynamic, the diagnostic and therapeutic elements flowing naturally and simultaneously as the treatment progresses. The book is profusely illustrated with the art productions of the two patients, much of it in color. In make-up, this is one of the most beautiful psychological volumes the reviewer has seen. The cases and the illustrations are so presented that the reader can follow the progress of treatment by studying the art forms at the different stages of personality disorganization or organization. The volume is particularly interesting because the author is an educator who has apparently been successful with extremely difficult types of therapy, working under the direction of psychiatrists. Most psychiatrists will not attempt to treat schizophrenics as ill as the two girls who were treated rather successfully by Margaret Naumburg. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)

Subjects:

*Art; *Art Therapy; *Psychotherapy; *Schizophrenia

Classification:

Art & Music & Movement Therapy (3357)
Schizophrenia & Psychotic States (3213)

Format Availability:Electronic; Print
Publication Type:Journal; Peer Reviewed Journal
Copyright:American Psychological Association. 1951.
Digital Object Identifier:10.1037/h0049550


PsycINFO AN:2005-13576-016

Accession Number: ccp-15-1-87-d
Database:PsycARTICLES