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About Tobi Zausner, PhD
Tobi Zausner has an interdisciplinary
doctorate in Art and Psychology. She
is a psychologist, an art historian,
and an award-winning visual artist
with works in major museums and in
private collections around the world.
Dr. Zausner writes and lectures
widely on the psychology of art and
human potential at academic
conferences and charitable events,
while teaching at Saybrook Graduate
School and Long Island University .
She is also an officer on the Board of
A.C.T.S (Arts, Crafts, and Theatre
Safety), a non-profit organization
investigating health hazards in the
arts. Her book, When Walls Become
Doorways: Creativity and the
Transforming Illness (Harmony /
Random House, 2007), is about the
influence of physical illness on the
creative process of visual artists. It
shows that instead of stopping
artists, physical difficulties transform
them, enhancing both their life and
their work. Dr. Zausner speaks from
experience. In 1989, she was
diagnosed with most aggressive kind
of ovarian cancer and her doctor did
not think she would last a year. But
she recovered and her life changed
for the better. A native New Yorker
and an avid reader, walker, and hiker,
Dr. Zausner wishes there were more
trees, grass, and hills in New York
City.
doctorate in Art and Psychology. She
is a psychologist, an art historian,
and an award-winning visual artist
with works in major museums and in
private collections around the world.
Dr. Zausner writes and lectures
widely on the psychology of art and
human potential at academic
conferences and charitable events,
while teaching at Saybrook Graduate
School and Long Island University .
She is also an officer on the Board of
A.C.T.S (Arts, Crafts, and Theatre
Safety), a non-profit organization
investigating health hazards in the
arts. Her book, When Walls Become
Doorways: Creativity and the
Transforming Illness (Harmony /
Random House, 2007), is about the
influence of physical illness on the
creative process of visual artists. It
shows that instead of stopping
artists, physical difficulties transform
them, enhancing both their life and
their work. Dr. Zausner speaks from
experience. In 1989, she was
diagnosed with most aggressive kind
of ovarian cancer and her doctor did
not think she would last a year. But
she recovered and her life changed
for the better. A native New Yorker
and an avid reader, walker, and hiker,
Dr. Zausner wishes there were more
trees, grass, and hills in New York
City.
