★スピリット・オブ・アートセラピー（ブログ）/ The Spirit of Art Therapy (blog)

2022/10/08

Spirit of Art Therapy 5

The First Class The first class at Pratt was one given by Prof. Robbins. It was the core class in the whole art therapy programs. The professor sat in a chair placed in the center of the wall facing the window, and the students surrounded him in a semicircle as they attended the class. By the way, the chairs that the students sat on were equipped with a foldable table, like ones used for in-flight meals on airplanes. We don’t see such type of table in Japan for we are accustomed to have a...

Classroom scene at Pratt · 2022/09/05

the Spirit of Art Therapy 4

Classroom scene at Pratt Professor Arthur Robbins (Ed.D.) was the long-time boss of Pratt's art therapy department (formally, the Department of Creative Arts Therapy), although the head of the department was a woman. Having Prof.Robbins at the top, all the faculty members had a family-like connection. Prof. Robbins led the core classes of art therapy through out two academic years. Other classes such as ‘group art therapy’, ‘family art therapy’, ‘developmental psychology’, and more,...

2022/08/07

the Spirit of Art Therapy 3

the Spirit of Art Therapy 3 Encounter with Art Therapy I enrolled in the Creative Arts Therapy Department (Graduate School) of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1985 to study art therapy. The Pratt Institute's Department of Art Therapy was founded in 1970, along with five programs starting around the same time: New York University, George Washington University, Emerson College, and Hanemann Institute. They made a major current of art therapy in the United States. The American Art...

2022/06/08

the Spirit of Art Therapy 2

The eve of art therapy (2) "Hey, Seki !" My one of my classmates called out on the bank in front of the university. When he entered the school, he was in the baseball club, and I had the image that he was playing baseball all the time. However, after a short interval he showed up with the different identity. He became prominent in the student activism, and in a blink of an eye he stand for and was elected as the student president. At that time, there was a stipulation that if you did not take...

2022/06/04

the Spitit of Art Therapy 1

The eve of encountering Art Therapy (1) The 1970 is remembered as a year of major milestones in Japanese history, with several major events. That year was the year when the US-Japan Security Treaty signed in 1960 was renewed. At that time, the student movement was raging at universities all over the country, and demonstrations of "anti-Security Treaty" were repeated every day. The summer of that year was also the year when humans walking on the road were featured in the front page of newspapers...

2022/05/30