The Fader: The Guggenheim Brings Alternative Art Therapy to Downtown Brooklyn
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“Art Therapy” Installation by the Guggenheim

The Fader: The Guggenheim Brings Alternative Art Therapy to Downtown Brooklyn
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…a temporary clinic, “which combines the best of New York’s existing therapy landscape with unexpected, short, experimental treatments. In two-hour windows, Sanatorium visitors experience up to three sessions from a roster of sixteen special ‘urban therapies.’ Upon arrival, visitors will meet a receptionist who will assign a series of “therapies” to each person. Balancing reality and parody, Sanatorium draws from Gestalt psychology, theater warm-up exercises, Fluxus events, conflict resolution techniques, trust-building games, corporate coaching, psychodrama, and hypnosis.

Is this parody helpful or hurtful for the art therapy profession? I wish I could experience the installation for myself so I could formulate an accurate opinion.

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