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Art therapy has been a part of the treatment program for psychiatric patients at St. Elizabeths Hospital since 1924 when Dr. Nolan Lewis argued for the value of art in expressing the unconscious and projecting inner feelings. In the 1940s and 1950s, Prentiss Taylor was the first art therapist to work as a regular member of the hospital staff. He published on art as psychotherapy and put together a large traveling exhibition of patients' works. Here, Dr. John Lind, who treated the criminally insane, displays the handiwork of one of his patients entitled "dimensional divertissement."
c. 1950
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