The Collage Connection... the beginning
'I have chosen one method-that of active imagination-which deals with images and is based on the fact that we must trust such images, which arise from the depth of the psyche... '1
1. Wallace, E. Healing Through the Visual Arts. In J.A. Rubin (Ed.), Approaches to Art Therapy. Brunner/Mazel, 1987.
...The central archetype which Jung called the 'Self' is of special importance as a healing factor. It has a regulating, stabilizing function, compensating for any imbalance that might arise. It could also be called one's inner wisdom and guide; I like to call it the 'creative source."— Edith Wallace, Healing Through the Visual Arts
Edith Wallace (1909 - 2004) took her two degrees M.D. and Ph.D. in Europe where she was born. She began practicing Jungian analysis in New York in 1951. She received her Jungian training in New York and also in Zurich with Mrs. Emma Jung and C.G. Jung. She started the work that lead to her book, How It All Began; How It Continued; No End! in 1970 in England at the school of her second great teacher J.G. Bennett. Her workshops have taken her all over the U.S., to Canada and Europe, and are now held annually in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been of interest to art therapists, and she often presented at their yearly conferences. She taught at the Pratt Institute Summer course in New Hampshire and also at the Jung Foundation and Jung Institute. She was on the staff of the Institute for Expressive Analysis and was editor emeritus of the Journal for the Arts in Psychotherapy. Her first book of collage work, A Queen's Quest, was published in 1990. Her chapter on Active Imagination appears in: Approaches to Art Therapy, edited by Judith Rubin.
