ABSTRACT
In responding to the editor’s invitation to contribute to this book, my secretary typed that I would be happy to write a chapter on “The Electric Approach to Art Therapy.” I didn’t correct the letter, but added in the margin that this is indeed highly charged work. And so it is. The power of an eclectic approach is the personal nature of its development. Nothing is taken for granted. It is not simply because I believe that many theories have something to offer, nor that any one theory may be too limiting-although I find both to be true-that I choose to be eclectic and encourage my students to be so as well. My rationale is far more fundamental, intrinsic to my convictions of what therapy is and what it is about.
