ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how blindness and sight engender gazes specific to the sensory differences between clients and therapist. Fogel A. believes that many blind children's psychosocial disorders are grounded in a sensory communicative mismatch between blind child and sighted pedagogue, stressing that blind children often feel alienated in a 'superior' sighted culture. These observations pinpoint a conundrum for therapy with the blind. Physical contact between client and therapist is – for ethical reasons – abstained from in therapy training and practice. The scarce literature on art therapy with the blind leaves much unexplored, that is, the art therapist's role as a representative of the sighted culture and its implications for transference, art-making and reflection in therapy. Investigating the nature of the interpersonal gazes, the intricacies of transference, power and surveillance between blind client and sighted therapist emerged. The client's 'blind gaze' often demanded and yet frustrated client sighted visual gaze.
