Pub Date : 2018-04-24DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.atol.v9i1.488
K. Connellan
Sensory stimuli are a whole body, mind, time, and space experience. During the arts therapy encounter memories are recalled through sensory stimulation and scent, sound, texture and taste amongst people with dementia, which can encourage transcendence from the temporal realities of loss. Gerotranscendence (Stephenson 2013) occurs when arts and the unconscious combine. This article reflects upon sensory arts therapy processes and outcomes in an aged care home, with one case study as a focus. Theories of memory, sensory perception and technologies of care, throw light upon the transcendent subject. I take Foucault’s views on the contingent subject further to extend the idea of the transcendent subject as one whose preconscious is more prevalent and active than the conscious (Foucault 2003). This transcendence is not ‘madness’ but rather a kind of freedom that is often outside of the immediate politics of institutional care and one in which arts therapy has noticeable agency. Keywords: Arts therapy; aged care; body; memory; senses; transcendence.
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Pub Date : 2018-04-24DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.atol.v9i1.491
Susan Rudnik
This short report is an attempt to bring into light the art therapy response following the Grenfell Tower fire on the 14th June 2017. This terrible tragedy was the worst fire in London’s history with a reported 72 deaths (one of whom died 6 months after the fire having never left hospital), 18 of the victims were children. The fire began on the 4th floor of the tower and spread ferociously through the building, aided by the exterior cladding that has now been identified as well below the necessary fire safety standards. There remains an on-going, complex inquiry into the causes and events that led to the fire, with major failings being uncovered in the building as well as the fire access to the block. While this stream of seemingly new evidence emerges to the outrage of the public, the community have known about these failings for years. The Grenfell Action Group[1] actively complaining about the shoddy workmanship and the unsafe refurbishment since 2012. They were not only ignored but also bullied and threatened with eviction by authorities. Ten months after the tragedy this disregard continues as many families remain in hotels and temporary accommodation as the painful fight for Justice continues.
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Pub Date : 2018-04-24DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V9I1.486
Unnur Ottarsdottir
Memory of drawings and words were compared for 134 subjects in a quantitative research. Nine weeks after the initial encoding the median amount of recalled drawings was five times higher, than for written words. There was no difference between memorised drawings and words when recalling took place right after encoding. Qualitative case studies were also conducted which demonstrated the way in which memory drawing can facilitate coursework learning. The memory drawing and the therapeutic process indicated that sensitive emotional material can be brought up and processed through such drawings. Art therapy theories and methods were found to be important in terms of memory drawing in order to explore, understand and explain the function of memory drawing for processing emotions and facilitating memory of coursework. An art therapy framework was also found to be important for considering the ethics and drawing boundaries for the memory drawing method in order to create safe spaces for students and clients who engage in creating memory drawings within therapy or education. Keywords: Memory, drawing, art educational therapy (AET), trauma, coursework learning.
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Pub Date : 2018-04-24DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V9I1.494
Caroline Frizell
This edited volume, ‘Working across Modalities in the Arts Therapies’, offers a window into cross modality working and transdisciplinary practice within and between the arts therapies and related disciplines. The book adds to a growing body of literature that addresses interdisciplinary work with a focus on the place where the individual arts therapies meet and where the arts therapies meet other healthcare and psychological interventions, such as speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and nurses, for example, in a “joined up approach that adheres to core principles while accessing skills unique to each discipline”(p: xxii).
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Pub Date : 2018-04-24DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V9I1.489
Catherine Miller, C. Brown
This article presents a case study of short-term art therapy with a homeless man that was undertaken in a residential hostel by a trainee therapist. One of the features of this work was that the client was an alcoholic who came to his sessions in varying degrees of intoxication. Although this presented some challenges the authors argue that his engagement in a therapeutic process had meaning that could be understood through a clinical witnessing of enactments within the transference-countertransference matrix. This required paying close attention to countertransference phenomena as expressed through the trainee therapist’s art responses to sessions, which were explored in supervision. Keywords: homelessness, alcohol dependency, witnessing, art therapy, art therapy training, clinical supervision.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-03DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.461
Steven B. Pratt
As part of a community arts project I was invited by the Young gallery, Salisbury to undertake an artist residency with The Royal Tank Regiment at Tidworth Garrison. This article looks at some of the issues that arose in running a non-directive art workshop with a tank crew, such as soldiers need for certainty of knowing what to do, and being a veteran myself. Keywords: Artist residency, Community arts, Art Psychotherapy, Veterans, The Army.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-03DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.atol.v8i2.462
M. Edmondson, Steven B. Pratt
This video film documents a workshop undertaken by Steve Pratt with a tank crew from The Royal Tank Regiment, Tidworth Garrison, Wiltshire. The workshop was part of an artist residency commissioned by the Young Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire, as described in the article ‘Working with Uncertainty: The Soldier’s Nightmare’ by Steve Pratt in this issue. The title of the film comes from the John Piper watercolour landscape painting ‘Maen Bras’ (Big Stone and Rain, 1943) owned by the Young Gallery, which formed a focus and point of reflection for the project. Mark Edmondson is the Digital Media Manager at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has a Diploma in Filmmaking and Photography from the London College Of Printing (now LCC) and a BA Hons in Anthropology & Communication. Other activities include sound recording/engineering and photography.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-03DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.458
Robin A. Tipple
In this discussion paper, aimed at promoting debate within the profession of Art Therapy and Art Psychotherapy, I argue that mentalization provides us with a narrow intellectualist account of mind and represents a poor alternative to thinking. I give examples of how mind might appear in everyday verbal exchanges, and I suggest that attending to the use of words that refer to the mind and thought, would enable us to see how the cultural and social was necessary to our thinking, both in everyday situations, and in the clinical space. I then argue that art therapy in adopting the mentalization construct might distract practitioners from the social, cultural, material and political understanding that enables us to explore and critique clinical practices. Keywords: Mentalize, Thinking, Art Therapy and Art Psychotherapy.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-03DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.atol.v8i2.467
C. Brown
This book is part of The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) Book Series, Series Editors: Alison Summers and Anna Lavis. Its contributors represent a diverse range of practitioners with different backgrounds and from various countries. These include: Scandinavia, Italy and the USA as well as the UK; psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and art therapists, who draw upon existentialism, phenomenology, neuroscience, object relations, Lacan and Jung – that’s quite a list!
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Pub Date : 2017-10-03DOI: 10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.459
E. Mackinnon, A. Myles, K. Page, Taiseer Shelhi, J. Westwood
This article considers the experiences of four recently qualified art psychotherapists as they move from training into work. It highlights the issues encountered and reflects the shifting field of employment as austerity Britain bites into public services and shapes possibilities. Creative testimonies of four women art psychotherapists are presented in collaboration with a woman art psychotherapy educator. Various themes are identified which include; the emotional experiences of change and transition, finding support beyond the training, seeking employment, the social and political implications of volunteering and self-employment, gender, race, adaptations of practise, sustaining core principles and values and finding ways to meet these experiences. These voices and views have relevance for newly qualified art psychotherapists, trainees, educators and other relevant professionals as they raise awareness of the issues, offer creative responses and suggest ways to meet and counter these challenges. Keywords: art psychotherapy, employment, training, gender, race, art- responses
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