Art Psychotherapy Groups in The Hostile Environment of Neoliberalism (eBook, ePUB)

Collusion or Resistance?
Redaktion: Skaife, Sally; Martyn, Jon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how 'the hostile environment' of neoliberalism affects art therapy in Britain. It shows how ambiguity in art and in psychoanalytically understood relationships can enable art psychotherapy groups to engage with class dynamics and aspire to democracy.

The book argues that art therapy needs to become a political practice if it is to resist collusion with a system that marginalises collectivity and holds individuals responsible for both their suffering and their recovery. It provides accounts of the contradictions that are thrown up by neoliberalism in art therapists' workplaces as well as accounts of art therapy groups with those affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower, in an acute ward, a women's prison, a community art studio and in a refugee camp.

Written by art psychotherapists for arts therapists and other mental health workers, the book will bring political awareness and consideration of resistance into all art therapy relationships, whatever the context and client group.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000529067
• Artikelnr.: 63274361

Autorenporträt

Sally Skaife, PhD, is an art therapist and group analyst working in mental health. She was a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London; a chair of the British Association of Art Therapists; a member of the editorial board of Inscape and, currently, ATOL; and has numerous publications. Jon Martyn is an art psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. He was a lecturer at Goldsmiths College and co-founded the New Art Studio, a therapeutic art studio for refugees and asylum seekers with Tania Kaczynski. He now lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Resisting Capture; 1. The Hostile Environment, Sally Skaife and Jon
Martyn; 2. Caught in Contradiction, Sally Skaife and Jon Martyn; 3. Art
Therapy as Resistance, Sally Skaife and Jon Martyn; Part 2. Grenfell; 4.
Latimer Community Art Therapy: Developing from the Grassroots after
Grenfell, Susan Rudnik; 5. 'This is Our Group': Art Therapy with
Adolescents in the Shadow of Grenfell, Beulah Lambert; 6. Don't go out
that door: The pressure on a school to perform/conform whilst its community
faces the aftermath of a disaster, Holly Caldecourt; Part 3. Against All
Odds; 7. A place of safety or a hostile environment?: How enactment in an
art psychotherapy group revealed impacts of immigration controls on the
mental health of asylum seekers and migrants detained in a psychiatric
unit, Annamaria Cavaliero; 8. Prison Cells: Transgenerational trauma and
art psychotherapy groups with women in prison, Jessica Collier; 9.
Protested Space: Artworks made in a therapeutic art studio under threat
from cuts, Helen Omand; 10. Witnessing the Edge: Reflections on
Co-Facilitating a Men's Art Therapy Group in a Refugee Camp in Greece,
Emily Hollingsbee and Katie Miller; Epilogue: Politics in Action, Sally
Skaife and Jon Martyn