ABSTRACT
Wadeson, an art therapist who often conducts groups, believes that the sort of leader one chooses to be depends on such factors as type of client population, size of group, treatment goals, length of treatment, setting, structure of sessions and personal style. Sally Skaife has explored the issue of structuring the group's time for art-making and for talking in her article 'Self-determination in group analytic art therapy'. She describes an art psychotherapy group which attempts to combine two types of therapeutic practice, free-floating verbal interaction and individual involvement in visual self-expression. The conductor of an interactive art therapy group has the responsibility of providing and maintaining a suitable room which is large enough for participating in art-making. McNeilly, while a student at the Institute of Group Analysis, presented a seminar to his peer group on the adaptation of group analysis to his own work as an art therapist.
