ABSTRACT
Freudian-based art therapy, as it has descended and evolved from the theoretical and practical differences among Naumburg, Kramer, and Ulman, presents great possibilities for favorable change. Yet we must also face up to the limitations of therapeutic work, whatever its theoretical basis. It has been remarked that the net achievement of psychological treatment in general has been to cure the healthy and maintain the sick. Sometimes circumstances other than the needs of a given client dictate the choice between art psychotherapy and art as therapy, and every choice entails a sacrifice of whatever lies along and at the end of the road not taken. Sometimes an art therapist is free to choose within a wide range, a range whose limits are set only by her own capabilities. The art psychotherapy character of the group had accidentally revealed the potential value that art as therapy might have had for Greta.
