{"title":"Book Review. Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions With Infants, Toddlers and Their families. Eds. Julia Meyerowitz-Katz and Dean Reddick, Routledge 2017","authors":"Beth Hoyes","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.466","url":null,"abstract":"When working in an infant school a couple of years ago, I often felt in need of some further reading on art therapy with this age group. I always found it surprising that this area had not been covered more fully within art therapy literature up to this point. With this in mind I feel this much needed book is a very welcome arrival. The book is a well-woven and diverse collection of current practice in art therapy with very young children and their families. Whilst reading the book I often found myself drawn to thinking about my work with older children, parents and carers in a primary school, and my work with young people as well. The formative early years shape so much of our internal worlds and relationships with others that I feel the experiences from these years are often met in different layers and forms within the therapy room, despite the client’s physical age.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131645992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exhibition Review. Mr A Moves in Mysterious Ways: Selected Artists from the Adamson Collection. Peltz Gallery","authors":"C. Brown, J. Martyn, S. Skaife","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.464","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘Mr A’ of the exhibition title is, of course, Edward Adamson himself and taken from a picture done by Martin Birch in 1969 whilst he was a patient in Netherne Hospital where Adamson worked from 1946 to 1981. The exhibition comprises sixteen art works on paper, a number of painted flint stones, a series of ten projected images (all made in his studio) plus a short essay film ‘Abandoned Goods’ by Pia Borg and Edward Lawrenson, Fly Films 2014. The exhibition has been curated by Dr Heather Tilley (Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow, Department of English and Humanities) and Dr Fiona Johnstone (Associate Research fellow, department of Art History), in association with Birkbeck’s Centre for Medical Humanities.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125315202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review. Outsider Art and Art Therapy: shared histories, current issues and future identities. By Rachel Cohen, Jessica Kingsley 2017","authors":"D. Maclagan","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.465","url":null,"abstract":"I found this a very frustrating and disappointing book on an important topic. It is quite American, both in its subject-matter and its style, and is not very well written. Most of the principal issues are flagged up, but not early enough, and proper discussion of them, which is often cursory, is often postponed until towards the end. Knowing the expense of reproduction, I was surprised that half-a-dozen of the plates (e.g. Hogarth, Pinel, Blake & Rousseau) were all- too familiar and not really relevant, besides being rather murky. I am afraid that this is not a book I would recommend, and it is a pity that it now looks as though the subject has been covered.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128139331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Collective Response to the Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott. With artwork and written responses from the Winnicott Wednesdays Artist Art Psychotherapist Collective","authors":"Beth Hoyes, H. Omand, Deba Anna Salim","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.463","url":null,"abstract":"As a collective of artist art psychotherapists called Winnicott Wednesdays, we were excited to be asked to respond to the publication of Winnicott’s Collected Works in January 2017. The request prompted us to think afresh about our group title and it’s meaning to us. The more we thought about it, the more we became aware of the influence of Winnicott's work on us as art psychotherapists, artists and beings.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133371421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why a picture can speak for a troubled child","authors":"Nadine Wojakovski","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.460","url":null,"abstract":"Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle January 16, 2017 and reproduced with permission. A new programme is offering art therapy for children in Jewish schools. “For a child whose life is being torn apart,” says art therapist Tim Anders, “a picture can provide more information than words alone.” A children’s art therapist for many years at Chai Cancer Care, he has just launched a charity to bring his programme into schools. It was first piloted it at Sinai Primary in Kenton and now ten Jewish primary schools have signed up to the scheme.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133123591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions With Infants, Toddlers and Their families. Eds. Julia Meyerowitz-Katz and Dean Reddick, Routledge 2017. Event at Gleebooks, Sydney, Australia.","authors":"A. Felman","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I2.468","url":null,"abstract":"This film documents the launch, by Ruth Mooney, of Meyerowitz-Katz, J., and Reddick, D. (Eds.) ‘Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions with Infants, Toddlers and their Families’, London: Routledge. The launch was hosted by Gleebooks in Sydney, Australia on 11 th February 2017. The event was moderated by Dr Sheridan Linnell and includes a contribution from Julia Meyerowitz-Katz and a panel consisting of chapter authors Pensi Rowe, Judy King, Celia Conolly and Julie Green in discussion with members of the audience. [The British launch of the book took place at a conference to celebrate the event in London on 2 nd June 2017.]","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129178515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding places and spaces for recognition: applied art therapy training and practice in the mitigation against unthinking acts of violence","authors":"Hayley Berman","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I1.420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I1.420","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the potentialities of Community Art Counselling techniques and processes in South Africa and how not only do these offer therapeutic spaces for traumatised communities, but can also serve as interfaces between psychoanalytically-informed practice, active citizenship and participatory action research opportunities. Case examples are drawn on in order to elucidate the multifariousness of Community Art Counselling at both a national as well as an individual level. Methods include photography, video, advocacy programmes, social dreaming and image-making. These examples, in particular an intervention in response to xenophobic attacks in the country, address intergenerational and intercultural transmission of trauma; the necessary adaptation of the traditional psychoanalytic frame of time, setting and disclosure; and the mitigation of ‘otherness’. Importantly, the author suggests that whilst reaction to continuous trauma, may include denial and shutting down, action can often be a first response. She suggests that art therapy as a modality offers an opportunity for a thinking action, which is more likely to be curative and sustainable – as opposed to unthinking action, which is the opposite. Keywords: Visual research, trauma, Social dreaming, Xenophobia.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128662655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Dreaming Matrix","authors":"Francesca Lanave","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.atol.v8i1.424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.atol.v8i1.424","url":null,"abstract":"The following is a report of the conference Social dreaming experience. It includes: an outline of the Social Dreaming model used at the conference, the methodology used to draw hypotheses, hypotheses and further questions about art therapy and the conference itself viewed as interacting systems. In the report I use the following abbreviations: SD for Social Dreaming, SDM for Social Dreaming Matrix, DRD for Dream Reflection Dialogue, DCR for Dream Creative Response, SS for System Synthesis.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114749351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meeting spaces: Inter-corporeal adventures","authors":"Penelope A. Best","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I1.422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I1.422","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a critically descriptive report of a keynote presentation at the conference ‘Finding Spaces, Making Places: Exploring social and cultural space in contemporary Art Therapy practice’ held at Goldsmiths, University of London, 13-16 th April 2016. The interactive nature of the presentation is described and links to related video clips are offered. The concept of expanding and shrinking are linked to breath as a core feature of human experience connected to attachment issues and intersubjectivity. Simple tasks are described that illuminate how the audience members carry previous embodied encounters into each new relationship. The talk perturbs notions of therapeutic space/s, provokes reflection upon practice and plays with understandings of relational space. The theme of widening and narrowing, as related to breath, is extended to connect with ideas from other keynote speakers and with the political dimension of accountability. Practice provocations and references from the presentation are offered to the reader to stimulate further explorations. Keywords: intersubjectivity, relational space, interactional shaping, breath.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126522837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Gold goggles’: The myopia of institutional transference","authors":"J. Martyn","doi":"10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I1.423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.ATOL.V8I1.423","url":null,"abstract":"This piece considers a myopia, which develops from professional identity and our relationships with institutions. Drawing from the experiences of facilitating a three day small experiential group at the 2016 Art Therapy Conference, I consider how ambivalence between institutional transference and training bias can lead to myopia, and I consider how this can be identified and be valued as part of a creative dialogue. I played a small role in the conference organising committee - made up of the 12 person tutor group on the Goldsmith’s MA art psychotherapy. I am speaking as a new member of the staff team, who trained at Goldsmith’s and whose attendance at the last conference, in 2013, was as a delegate.","PeriodicalId":117738,"journal":{"name":"Art Therapy Online","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132077810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}