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Dr. Shaun McNiff

University Professor Emeritus and Pioneer of Expressive Arts Therapy
Division of Expressive Therapies, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Dr. Shaun McNiff is an internationally recognized authority who established the world's first integrated expressive arts therapy graduate program at Lesley in 1974, authoring foundational texts on art as healing.

Primary Subject Domain: ARTS-DESIGN
Department / Faculty: Division of Expressive Therapies
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