Margaret Namburg's role in therapy is

• A. primary therapist
• B. adjunct therapist
• C. client
• D. researcher

Answer: (A)

Margaret Naumburg shaped art therapy around the idea that art making is the central therapeutic process. In her view, the client acts as the artist, bringing inner material to light through images, while the therapist’s role is to guide the process, support expression, and interpret the artwork to foster insight and change. Because the therapeutic work centers on directing and making sense of the art process itself, the therapist is seen as the primary therapist—the main agent of change in this model. The other roles don’t fit as well here: the client is the one expressing, a researcher would study therapy rather than lead it, and an adjunct therapist would be secondary to the central guiding role.