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etrieved from the Psychlit, which produced many more hits. The first two sources were
clearly inferior for this type of material which was well within the Psychlit domain and
not a borderline subject.
Because research in the field of art is not fully represented on databases,
additional unsystematic searches of art therapy journals, books, citations contributed to
it over the six year progress of this research. Through personal correspondence over four
years of the writing, I undertook to discover any major omissions and a small amount of
unpublished work was added. This review concentrates on published studies, but they
have the advantage of accessibility and of peer review as that of uncatalogued journals and
unpublished work is of uneven quality. Although, no doubt, not every paper is
represented here, especially unpublished work, there is sufficient coverage of the area to
make informed judgements and there is no reason to believe that overlooked papers would
provide different information 95 .
All art therapy journals referenced here were international, mostly American,
There is only one British journal dedicated to art therapy, Inscape 96 , which is neither
catalogued nor indexed. An unsystematic search of an incomplete collection at the local
nursing library found articles which were mostly of speculative clinical interest and
did not call for expression or personal input.
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Studies in other languages, especially eastern Europe seem to have a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary
therapy (impressions from abstracts).
96 Produced by the British Association of Art Therapists.
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