Art as therapy : collected papers / Edith Kramer ; edited by Lani Alaine Gerity.

Preface / Lani Gerity
Part 1: Introduction: Personal history as artist and art therapist. Credo, as an artist and as art therapist ; A history and lineage of art therapy as practice by Edith Kramer ; Art therapy and language, a revisiting of Orwell's 'Politics and the English language'
Part 2: The profession of art therapy. 'Exploration of definition', by Edith Kramer and Elinor Ulman ; The unity of process and product ; Art therapy and sublimation ; The art therapist's third hand : reflections on art, art therapy and society at large
Part 3: Clinical work. 'An art therapy evaluation session for children', by Edith Kramer and Jill Schehr ; Leadership and cultural tradition ; Case history of angel : art therapy and the disturbed gifted child ; Art and the blind child ; Case history of Christopher ; 'The importance of lines', but Kerstin Kupfermann with a discussion by Edith Kramer
Part 4: Art therapy, ethology and society. 'Reflection on the evolution of human perception : implications for the understanding of the visual arts and of the visual products of art therapy' ; Art therapy and the seductive environment, by Katherine Williams, Edith Kramer David Henley and Lani Gerity ; The etiology of human aggression ; Inner satisfaction and external sucess, by Edith Kramer, Martha Haeseler, David Henley and Lani Gerity
Part 5: Art and art therapy. 'The Angels of St. Wolfgang' : representation of infancy and childhood in the art of the renaissance and of the baroque ; 'A critique of Kurt Eissler's Leonardo da Vinci' ; Survival under extreme conditions : reflections on The book of Alfred Kantor : an artist's journal of the Holocaust.