ABSTRACT
Martha Haeseler elaborates on many of Edith’s ideas and observations by applying them to the work in art therapy, done over ten years, by a US Navy veteran, to ameliorate crippling symptoms and substance misuse caused by severe childhood trauma. Concepts include the complex role and management of the emergence of truth in art therapy; art’s ability to absorb and contain raw affect; sublimation; subtleties in the role of identification, and transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the power of art to symbolically restore a lost object.
