Same Child Seen by 2 Art Therapists
by Edith Kramer & Judith Aron Rubin
In this video, two noted pioneers in art therapy, Dr. Judith Rubin and Edith Kramer, provide an art therapy session for the same child, a 10-year-old girl in the outpatient clinic of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. 
The two therapists, both trained and grounded in psychoanalytic theory, demonstrate different means of arriving at similar outcomes. Kramer’s art as therapy approach, with a goal of sublimation, is contrasted to Rubin’s playful and interactive style of drawing out the child in associations as to the artwork as well as in dramatic play.

Commentary is provided by Dr. Gussie Klorer, author of two books on expressive therapy with children.
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The two therapists, both trained and grounded in psychoanalytic theory, demonstrate different means of arriving at similar outcomes. Kramer’s art as therapy approach, with a goal of sublimation, is contrasted to Rubin’s playful and interactive style of drawing out the child in associations as to the artwork as well as in dramatic play.

Commentary is provided by Dr. Gussie Klorer, author of two books on expressive therapy with children.

This video was formerly included in the Expressive Media Arts Therapies Films Collection distributed by Expressive Media Inc.

Length of video: 2:45:23

English subtitles available

Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-654-4

Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-654-7

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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