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Lucia Capacchione
Italian-American psychologist and art therapist (1937–2022)
Lucia Capacchione (3 November 1937 – 28 November 2022) was an Italian-American psychologist, art therapist,[1] former graphic designer and a writer[2] who has been bestseller of twenty-two books based on child therapy and self-help, including The Creative Journal (1979) and Recovery of Your Inner Child (1991).[3] She discovered the use of 'writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand' method in art therapy, which she first mentioned it in her work The Power of Your Other Hand (1988).[4] She was the director of Head Start program during the period of President Johnson's war on poverty.[5] A long-time member of American Art Therapy Association and International Expressive Arts Therapy Association[citation needed], she was also a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering[6] from 1983 till 1993. Due to medical complications that lead to neurological imbalance Lucia died by suicide on November 28, 2022.