Helen Country Garden
Helen B. Landgarten (born March 4, 1921 in Detroit , † February 23, 2011 in Los Angeles ) was an American psychotherapist . Along with Edith Kramer and Judith A. Rubin, she was one of the leading pioneers of art therapy , a form of psychotherapy that works with non-verbal, purely creative means. The patient's mental processes are shown in his collages, drawings, paintings or sculptures and can be edited or changed in the context of the design and thus managed.
Helen B. Landgarten was a professor and director of the Faculty of Clinical Art Therapy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She worked as an art psychotherapist in the psychiatric department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center . As an honorary member of the American Art Therapist Association, she contributed to art therapy spreading first in the USA and increasingly also in Europe and around the world. Helen Landgarten has led numerous workshops in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Israel, South Africa and Brazil. In addition, she wrote several books, two of which have been translated into German so far.
In her first book with the title Clinical Art Therapy , Helen Landgarten conveys her wealth of experience, acquired through decades of practice. This basic work shows the entire range of applications of the form of therapy in working with all age groups in a wide variety of settings.
In her second book, Art Therapy as Family Therapy, the author deals exclusively with art therapy for families. Case studies of various diagnoses are structured chronologically and show the coherent connection between the two forms of therapy, based on a common, partnership-based level of discussion for parents, children and even grandparents. The jointly designed work within the framework of family therapy forms the basis for the analysis of unconscious messages and thus the prerequisite for understanding and change.
Fonts
- Clinical art therapy. Gerardi / Verlag für Kunsttherapie, Karlsruhe 1990, ISBN 3-927948-57-8 .
- Art therapy as family therapy. Gerardi / Verlag für Kunsttherapie, Karlsruhe 1991, ISBN 3-927948-76-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Helen B. Landgarten dies at 89; pioneering art therapist In: Los Angeles Times, February 26, 2011, accessed March 5, 2017
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| SURNAME | Country garden, Helen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landgarten, Helen B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychoanalyst and therapist, representative of art therapy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 2011 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California, USA |