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Acknowledgments

A special thanks to Johannes Reichmayr and the Archives of the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, the Siegfried Bernfeld Collection, for the early film clip of Edith Kramer. This silent footage shows us a bit of Edith Kramer’s childhood, family, and some of the creative circle of early 20th century Viennese intellectuals, artists, and psychoanalysts that surrounded her in her formative years. We see Edith interacting with a caring net of family and friends at Christine (Mädi) Olden’s lakeside vacation house in Grundlsee. Like Winnicott’s “holding environment,” this caring net with Mädi Olden at its center shaped Edith’s development and profoundly influenced the development of art therapy as well.

Additionally, we are indebted to Elena Makarova for the film clip here of Edith Kramer talking with Elena, describing her views of art today and how she sees her role as an artist. For more films and books by Elena please visit her website www.makarovainit.com.