ABSTRACT
In the year 1964, the author began a sojourn that was to last the rest of her life and, with the writing of this book, hopefully beyond. She also delighted that a second generation of Kagin art therapists has joined her in this endeavor. Marge worked at an in-patient hospital for children and adolescents who were diagnosed as severely emotionally disturbed or schizophrenic. Those were the days long before the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The youth were in long-term care that was psychodynamic in orientation. Hissom was a state facility for what was then called the mentally retarded, although many of the residents would have been diagnosed differently today. Elinor Ulman studied with Margaret Naumburg at New York University and became an artist-therapist at a hospital in Washington, DC. She was the first publisher and editor of Bulletin of Art in Psychotherapy, Education and Rehabilitation.
