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| | History of Education: Selected Moments |
 | | In those years, Naumburg and her husband Waldo Frank lived fully the effervescence of New York City, and particularly the exuberance of new ideas that emanated in the city’s bohemian subculture which was centered in Greenwich Village from 1909 to 1915. |
 | | At Walden, Naumburg wanted to put into practice her theories, particularly the idea that “the emotional development of children, fostered through encouragement of spontaneous creative expression and self-motivated learning, should take precedence over the traditional intellectual approach to the teaching of a standardized curriculum” (Frank in Detre et al. |
 | | Naumburg was highly influenced by Freud, Jung, and Harry Stack Sullivan, but she also was interested in Eastern Philosophy, the occult, psychodrama, parapsychology, modern surrealist art, and primitive art, all areas that helped her to develop her own theory of art therapy. |
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