ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the boundary violation and scapegoating in the art therapy training group. Many of the trainees had an art or art teaching background and were clear that the course was an introduction after which they might be able to consider taking further training in an Art Therapy programme. This was a group of nine in an introductory art therapy programme that lasting one week. The aim was to encourage them to use the materials to make a spontaneous, based on initial impressions, non-verbal comment about others in the group. This group was a total contrast in its lack of obvious conflict and indeed some members suggested that all the 'bad feeling' was in the neighbouring environment. A general discussion of the groups followed in which the main issue was boundary violation, clearly acted out by M. but also discussed in terms of war and trespass on others' space.
