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The first is “Art Tells the Truth” by Elena Makarova (about 40 minutes) which documents Elena’s research, relationship and overlapping interests with Edith Kramer. Elena worked in the Soviet Union with children with disabilities and sought out Edith Kramer in New York City stimulated by their shared interest in Friedl Dicker-Brandeis’s work and approach. Edith’s early years as an art therapist are described including her work on Riker’s Island, the concept of the third hand, and her ideas about the relationship between art and life.The second film is a “Eulogy for Edith” by Judith Rubin made for a Memorial Symposium at NYU (about 60 minutes). It is a compilation and overview of photographs as well as excerpts from prior films from Part 1 and 2 of this series, with additional footage of her work at Wiltwick School for Boys, Jewish Guild for the Blind, a 1975 diagnostic procedure and a 1979 lecture at Walter Reed Hospital and interviews with adults who worked with Edith’s Teacher Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, while she was interned in the concentration camp of Terezin. Edith describes her personal analysis while in Prague and its continuation in New York after emigrating, as well as the importance of transference and the need to understand countertransference. It ends with her funeral at in Austria, where she had gone to live permanently after retirement, in 2014.
The second film is a “Eulogy for Edith” by Judith Rubin made for a Memorial Symposium at NYU (about 60 minutes). It is a compilation and overview of photographs as well as excerpts from prior films from Part 1 and 2 of this series, with additional footage of her work at Wiltwick School for Boys, Jewish Guild for the Blind, a 1975 diagnostic procedure and a 1979 lecture at Walter Reed Hospital and interviews with adults who worked with Edith’s Teacher Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, while she was interned in the concentration camp of Terezin. Edith describes her personal analysis while in Prague and its continuation in New York after emigrating, as well as the importance of transference and the need to understand countertransference. It ends with her funeral at in Austria, where she had gone to live permanently after retirement, in 2014.
This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.
Length of video: 1:00:23
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-675-7
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-675-2
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.