I think you are referring to an illusive something that makes the whole more than the sum of its parts. At the same time I think there is value in trying to recognize, study and understand the parts and see how they relate to one another. There is a tendency in psychology and in art therapy for many prominent Practitioners to take an adversarial stance towards other approaches. This is a shame because I believe that we are all looking at a still life from our own point of view and talking essentially about different aspects of the same thing. We have a choice to try to include everyone’s voices/images and enrich the profession or insist on our incomplete picture as the only true way.

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Hoda Mazloomian,
MAAT, ATR-BC, LCPC