Art Therapy

Arteterapia: un enfoque psicosocial

by Margaret Hills de Zárate

Positive Energy: A Review of the Role of Artistic Activities in Refugee Camps

by Awet Andemicael

published by the United Nations High Commisisoner for Refugees Policy Development and Evaluation Service (UNHCR PDES)

Neurobiology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Margaret Wilkinson

by Daniela Sieff

Capitulo 9. Métodos y Técnicas o Metodologías y Epistemologías? La Teoría Visual Contemporánea u su Relación con las Metodologías para investigar el Arte? …

by Margaret Hills de Zárate

Adaptation of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for nightmares in children: a brief report (2009)

by Tore Nielsen

This study investigated the effectiveness of a psychotherapeutic treatment for nightmares that was adapted for 6- to... more This study investigated the effectiveness of a psychotherapeutic treatment for nightmares that was adapted for 6- to 11-year-old children from imagery rehearsal therapy. Ten child-mother dyads took part in a 3-session, 8-week treatment protocol. Participation in the study (contact with clinician, keeping a prospective dream log) was associated with decreases unpleasant dreams frequency, nightmare distress, and manifest anxiety. Providing educational information about nightmares did contribute to this positive effect. Results also suggest that drawing modified versions of nightmares for 1 month was associated with further reductions in nightmare distress and anxiety, but with no changes in unpleasant dreams frequency. Follow-ups at 3 and 6 months posttreatment suggest that the intervention had maintained effects.

The Affect of Creative Art

by Ayla Michelle Demir

Psychoanalysis & Art: Unconscious Automatic Watercolour Painting and Analysis

by Ayla Michelle Demir

Art and illusion

by Alina Gaboran

Chilton, G. & Wilkinson, R. (2009). Positive Art Therapy: Envisioning the intersection of Art Therapy and Positive Psychology. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art Therapy, 4 (1) 27-35.

by Gioia Chilton

Pride and Prejudice with Gay and Lesbian Individuals

by Eleanor Pardess

This paper explores unique challenges in helping gay and lesbian clients develop a positive identity in a society in... more This paper explores unique challenges in helping gay and lesbian clients develop a positive identity in a society in which prejudice and discrimination are prevalent.

A narrative approach within a postmodern framework gives us a new perspective on homophobia and heterosexism and sheds new light on the complexities of identity development and the coming out process as a re-writing of one’s story and as a continuous conversation with oneself and others.

Because the definitions and acceptability of same-sex love differ across cultures and are constantly changing, understanding the socio-cultural context is imperative. When helpers deny the culture-specific experiences in the lives of lesbian and gay clients, bias is likely to pervade the helping encounter.

Combining the expressive arts with narrative therapy can open new possibilities for practitioners. By rendering the invisible visible, opening lines of communication, and transcending culture barriers, art is a valuable resource. It can be a form of “giving voice” and of protest against dominant oppressive discourses.

A detailed case study will illustrate how narrative practices integrated with the expressive arts may provide support and validation as well as strengthen the capacity of the individual to resist the detrimental effects of negative labeling and pathologizing discourses.

Finally, based on studies surveyed in this chapter, a table has been prepared that lists guidelines for those affirmative practices that can provide support for identity development and biased practices where helping can harm

Towards Babel: Language and Translation in Art Therapy

by Jamie Bird

Chapter in edited book: Art Therapy and Postmodernism: Creative Healing Through a Prism
Edited by Helene Burt
Foreword by Joy Schaverien
Published by Jessica Kingsley
September 2011

This chapter has two purposes. The first is to present an inquiry into the phenomenon of Art Therapy that is conducted... more This chapter has two purposes. The first is to present an inquiry into the phenomenon of Art Therapy that is conducted in Britain where the client and therapist do not share a common first-language, such that one or other of the parties is required to engage in a process of translation. Because of the need for Art Therapists to respond to the needs of clients who do not have English as a first language – an increasingly common experience given the nature of the movement of people across national and geographical borders that is a major theme in the modern global society where an increase in conflict and the expansion of economic unification (the European Union for example) leads to increase in voluntary and forced migration– it is felt to be pertinent and essential to explore and think about the nature of language and translation in Art therapy.

The second purpose of this chapter is to critically explore a number of post-modern research methodologies. A qualitative research methodology is employed with an emphasis upon the phenomenological experience of Art Therapists working in a bi-lingual way. Through a process of critical analysis of theory and research associated with the study of language and migration, alongside the employment of progressively focused interviews with Art Therapists, the emergence of themes will enable a greater understanding not only about the specific nature of language and translation in Art therapy but also of the relationship between words and images in Art Therapy more generally.

Gender, Knowldge and Art: Feminist Standpoint Theory synthesised with Arts-Based research in the study of domestic violence

by Jamie Bird

A work in progress that develops ideas initially presented at Vital Signs, Manchester University, September 2010. Please contact the author if you wish to reference or quote from this work in progress.

This paper sets out the ongoing development of an arts-based methodology for the documentation, representation and... more This paper sets out the ongoing development of an arts-based methodology for the documentation, representation and dissemination of women’s experiences of domestic violence. Of particular concern is the ways in which an arts-based approach to the acquisition of expressions of lived experience has the potential to provide access to multi-sensory and embodied knowledge that words alone might struggle to articulate. The possibility of using the arts to generate different kinds of knowledge would seem to fit with the concept of 'strong objectivity' as articulated in Sandra Harding's defence of feminist standpoint epistemologies and with David MacDougall’s identification of ‘stereoscopic imagination’ within film-based ethnography. The place of imagination in feminist standpoint epistemology’s central concept of beginning thought in the lives of others would also appear to justify the synthesis of standpoint and creative research methodologies. Bringing together these ideas also provides a way of thinking about the gendered researcher.

Intersections and inroads: Art therapy's contribution to visual methods

by Jamie Bird

Paper written in collaboration with Professor Sarah Pink and Professor Susan Hogan.

This paper is written in the belief that art therapists will be interested to hear about contemporary developments... more This paper is written in the belief that art therapists will be interested to hear about contemporary developments within the social sciences (especially in anthropology and ethnography) that may contribute both to the development of art therapy and to the synthesis of the two practices.

ROUTES TO INTERIORITIES: ART THERAPY AND KNOWING IN ANTHROPOLOGY Susan Hogan (Professor of Art Therapy and Cultural Studies, University of Derby, UK) and Sarah Pink (Professor of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK).

by Professor Susan Hogan

In this article we explore the relationship between feminist art therapy and anthropology. We suggest there are a... more In this article we explore the relationship between feminist art therapy and anthropology. We suggest there are a series of congruities between a feminist approach to art therapy and strands of contemporary anthropological practice concerned with understanding other people’s interior thoughts and the potential of art to make critical interventions.

Intersections and Inroads: Art Therapy’s Contribution to Visual Methods: Sarah Pink, Susan Hogan & Jamie Bird.

by Professor Susan Hogan

Key words: Visual research methods; interdisciplinary; research tool; ontological status of imagination; visual anthropology.

This paper is written in the belief that art therapists (who are interdisciplinary in bringing together social... more This paper is written in the belief that art therapists (who are interdisciplinary in bringing together social psychological and social anthropological understandings with artistic practice and aesthetic theory) will be interested to hear about contemporary developments within the social sciences – anthropology and ethnography in particular - that may contribute both to the development of art therapy and to the synthesis of the two practices.

Mad, Bad & Degenerate Chapter.

by Professor Susan Hogan

Sample chapter from Hogan, S. 2001. Healing Arts. London: JKP.