History • 63unit’s director, as well as by Dr. Paul Fink, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who became
her ally and guide. Together, they started first undergraduate and then graduate-level train-
ing. They also got the national organization of art therapists underway by hosting a critical
meeting in Philadelphia in 1968.
Levick (along with Ault, Jones, Ulman, and Felice Cohen (M) from Texas) was on the
steering committee that incorporated the American Art Therapy Association, which was
voted into being at a second meeting at the University of Louisville in 1969. As the first
president of AATA, Levick presided in 1970 at its inaugural meeting, with 100 people
Figure 3.11 Hanna Kwiatkowska, family art therapy.
Figure 3.12 Myra Levick, founder of the first training program.