Carol Thayer Cox

Background

Cox, Carol Thayer was born on April 5, 1946 in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of John Alden Thayer and Sylvia Jessen Ott.

Education

Bachelor, Mary Washington College, 1968; postgraduate, George Washington University, 1979-1980; Master of Arts, George Washington University, 1984.

Career

Co-owner, The Limited Edition Art Gallery, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1975-1978; art therapy consultant, Prince William (Virginia) County Cmty. Health Center, 1981-1984; art therapist, Accotink Academy, Springfield, Virginia, 1984-1988; art therapy consultant, Maryland. Institute for Individual and Family Therapy, College Park, 1984-1992; assistant professor, George Washington University, Washington, since 1994.

Adjunct Professor George Washington U., Washington, 1988-1993. Adjunct faculty summer school graduate art therapy program Vermont College Norwich U., Montpelier, since 1992. Faculty Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse, Trauma, and Dissociation, Alexandria, Virginia, since 1989.

Advanced internship child and adolescent service department psychiatry Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, 1982-1983.

Achievements

• Carol Thayer Cox has been listed as a noteworthy Art therapist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Telling Without Talking: Art as a Window into the World of Multiple Personality

    ( This extensively illustrated book shows how abused indi...)

  • Telling Without Talking: Art as a Window into the World of Multiple Personality by Barry M. Cohen (1995-05-17)

Membership

Member American Art Therapy Association (nominating committee chair 1995-1996, member editorial board Art Therapy: The Journal of the American Art Association since 1990), Association for Teachers of Mandala Assessment (co-founder, director, treasurer since 1990), Virginia ArtTherapy Association (co-founder, treasurer 1986-1988), Virginia Coalition of Arts Therapy Assns. (treasurer 1987-1993).

Interests

• Avocations: writing poetry, painting, photography, reading, collecting trivets.

Connections

Married William Jerome Cox, February 3, 1968. Children: Christopher Lawrence, Kimberly Thayer.

Father:

John Alden Thayer

Mother:

Sylvia Jessen Ott

Spouse:

William Jerome Cox

child:

Christopher Lawrence Cox

child:

Kimberly Thayer Cox