Season 4. Ep.4 David Gussak- Art Therapist (USA)

David E. Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM is Professor for the Florida State University’s Graduate Art Therapy Program and Founder/Program Consultant for the FSU/FL Dept of Correction’s Art Therapy in Prisons program. He served as the  chairperson for the FSU Department of Art Education in which the art therapy program is housed from 2008-2018. He has presented and published extensively internationally and nationally on forensic art therapy and art therapy in forensic settings. These include, among others, Art on Trial: Art Therapy for Capital Murder Cases (2013), Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity (2019), The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence (2022) and The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy (Co-editor with Marcia Rosal; 2016).  In 2022, Dr. Gussak was granted the American Art Therapy Association’s Honorary Lifetime Member (HLM) award.

The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence, by David E Gussak