"Making or Breaking: Art Therapy in the Shifting Tides of a Violent Culture" Lynn Kapitan

This article assigned for this week was much more intriguing and less repetitive than last weeks, "Shamanic Continuities". Kapltan writes, "I wonder why it is that art therapists have not consciously expanded their role from clinician to activist or peacemaker... why aren't art therapists contributing more deliberately to advocacy for transforming our violent culture into one that is compatible with life?" Since I have not been familiar with the art therapy realm I am surprised that art therapists aren't more involved with the issue of violent culture. Artists and educators have been approaching this issue for years. I think adding this therapeutic element could introduce new ideas and ways of dealing with this issue that couldn't be explored with just artists and educators.