What Next? • 265Remedial Art by a British art school (Pacey, 1972). The third was compiled for the National
Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), and was an annotated bibliography of 1175 items
published between 1940 and 1973 on Art Therapy (Gantt & Schmal, 1974). Also funded by
NIMH, Art Therapy in Mental Health was an annotated listing of 392 items covering the
period between 1973 and 1981 (Moore, 1981). The following year there was an annotated
bibliography on Art Therapy & Group Work (Hanes, 1982).
From its inception in 1961 until February of 1989, the Bulletin of Art Therapy (later the
American Journal of Art Therapy) printed a regular listing (biannually until 1983, then
annually) of “Recent Periodical Literature & Other Brief Publications.” Computerized data-
bases, including Art Bibliographies, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, ERIC,
PsycINFO, Psychological Abstracts, PsycLIT, Research Alert, Scopus, and the Social Sciences
Citation Index, now include art therapy journals.
Journals Although the Bulletin of Art Therapy (later the American Journal of Art Therapy)
was the first periodical in the field, founded in 1961, articles on art therapy and reports of
related meetings were also published in Confinia Psychiatrica. This was the official organ
of the International Society for the Psychopathology of Expression (SIPE). That journal
was published from 1958 to 1980; the organization not only still exists, but has added the
words Art Therapy to its name (www.online-art-therapy.com). In 1973 psychologist Ernest
Harms founded Art Psychotherapy, which later changed its name and scope to The Arts in
Psychotherapy. Like Confinia Psychiatrica, which was multilingual, it is also international,
but all of the articles are written in English.
In 1983 the American Art Therapy Association, which was officially affiliated with the
American Journal of Art Therapy from 1974 to 1983, began the publication of its own jour-
nal, Art Therapy. Most of these periodicals are quarterly, and all are still published regu-
larly, except for Confinia Psychiatrica, which ended in 1980 and the American Journal of
Art Therapy, which was published until 2001. Having served on the editorial boards of all of
them, I can attest to a slow but steady increase in the quality of submitted manuscripts—in
both form and content.
There are also art therapy journals in English in Great Britain (Inscape), in Canada
(Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal), in Australia/New Zealand (ANZAT Journal)
and in other countries. The World Wide Web—the computer information pool accessible
through the Internet—has a wealth of information about art therapy, which is increasing
at least as fast as the literature in the field. This remarkable information superhighway
will hopefully carry the vehicle of art therapy further and faster in this 21st century. For
example, when looking up the Australian website, I found an excellent summary of litera-
ture^2 and references on evidence-based research in the field of art therapy.^3 The Internet
is also becoming the place where films about art therapy, made by those in and out of the
field, are being posted. A listing of some of these can be found on the website of Expressive
Media (http://www.expressivemedia.org).
Books on Art Therapy Both art therapy journals in this country include regular book
and videotape review sections. The growth has been astonishing. Just to give the reader
some perspective, a bit of history is in order. In December of 1974, when I had to make
a case for writing a book on art therapy as my dissertation, there were only 12 books by
art therapists on art therapy (Betensky, 1973; Harris & Joseph, 1973; Hill, 1946, 1951;
Kramer, 1958, 1971; Lyddiatt, 1971; Naumburg, 1947, 1950, 1953, 1966; Rhyne, 1973).