Among the varieties of psychotherapeutic techniques developed during the last quarter of a century hardly any seems more intriguing than what is called by some (for instance E. Ziehrer) 'creative therapy'. It seems to combine two approaches: features of occupational therapy and features of therapeutic situations in which the patient communicates to the therapist through his creative productions.

The 'practice' of creative therapy—if in a field with such complex prerequisites the word 'practice' is at all in order—requires a