By then also, artists and dancers were volunteering to go into mental hospitals and help the patients express their artistic creativity. The resulting breakthroughs in cases gave rise to the first use of the term art therapy.
也就在四○年代，美國與英國開始有畫家、舞蹈家進入精神病院當義工，教導精神病患藝術創作，讓病患的病情有了相當的突破與進展，「藝術治療」這一個新名詞於焉誕生。