Publications & Documents
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Bethlem Royal Hospital |
Notes on and images from two artists; William Kurelek and Elise Warriner |
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Champernowne. Irene |
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Hecht. Ruth, Arts Council England and Arts & Health South West |
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Huckvale. Karen |
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Learmonth. Malcolm & Huckvale. Karen |
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Learmonth. Malcolm |
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Making a Case for art therapy based on the NICE Guidelines on Depression |
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The NICE Guidelines on Depression, an analysis from an art therapy perspective |
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Learmonth.Malcolm / Mental Health Foundation |
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Richards. Anthony |
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Wright. John |
PUBLICATIONS & DOCUMENTS
On this page articles/papers by Insider Artists, colleagues, presenters from our events, and previously published articles and papers we have permission to make available from this site. Where a paper has been published, you will find links to the journals and organisations that have helped us in this way, and for papers by contributors, author links. If you have any difficultly accessing papers through links please let us know. Previously unpublished Documents are towards the end of the page.
See Books: For details about our publications
- Love, Desire & Teen Spirit: Reflections on the Dynamic Force of Adolescent Eros by Joolz McLay.
- A Jungian Circumambulation of the Arts & Therapy: Ornithology for the Birds by Michael Edwards
- The Untamed Sea by Ronald Q Henriques
PUBLICATIONS:
Publications are numbered in reverse order. Highest number = most recent.
No:16
Karen's response to the question asked in New Scientist's 'Last Word' column 'Why are adults and teenagers less imaginative than children?' is, of course that they're not!
Read her reponse, titled for these purposes, 'Fish Don't Organise Birthday Parties' here.
No: 15
Coinciding with our publication of Michael Edwards’ book ‘A Jungian Circumambulation of the Arts and Therapy: Ornithology for The Birds’ we are pleased to offer here some additional material.
About Art Therapy and Irene Champernowne. 2 page PDF
Art Therapy as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy 1968 Irene Champernowne. 10 page PDF
Art and Therapy: An Uneasy Partnership 1971 Irene Champernowne. 15 page PDF
Withymead Prospectus. 1964. 6 page PDF
No: 14
Frames of Mind: Creativity in Mental Healthcare
10 October to 31 January 2009
Frames of Mind brings artworks from Bethlem Royal Hospital, the original ‘Bedlam’, to Croydon Clocktower’s Exhibition Gallery. The exhibition showcases artworks collected by Bethlem Royal Hospital, since the 1850s as well as contemporary art works created by artists supported by the Bethlem Gallery. Further notes on and images from two artists; William Kurelek and Elise Warriner are available by clicking here.
No: 13
John Wright. By kind permission of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Journal who first published this article in Volume 17:3 pp 241 -252
We include this paper here as it formed the basis of a presentation given at the Seventh Exeter Arts & Therapies Conference 2008. Full details of the conference can be found on the Exeter Conference page of this site. Thanks to John for his presentation and his permission to share the paper.
No: 12
Courageous Conversations: Anthony Richards
By kind permission of Arts Professional www.artsprofessional.co.uk who first published this article in Issue 167, 07 April 2008.
We include it here with this note from the author: "Last winter I found myself being a student on the Art in Mental Health Foundation Course run by Insider Art. Something I learned was that it demands a great degree of bravery, and patience, on the part of a therapist to encourage a client into a safe, creative, mental and physical place from which they can produce material to begin a therapeutic conversation. I learned that there was no standard approach for this - it takes skill and training.
For me this resonates loudly with how I work as a role play actor in training others. I have to create a safe zone within which I encourage the delegate to play with me. Once we are engaged in the world of make believe, we can then have a dialogue which, at best, helps the characters to understand some difficult and personal things about themselves, each other and the situation they find themselves in.
Working with people in the Arts is a complex and sensitive business. I get grumpy with aspects of the Arts Council's approach to supporting and developing work so I wrote the Courageous Conversations article.
I think you can substitute the word Leader with Therapist or Counsellor and still see it make sense." Anthony Richards
No: 11
New Therapist
Indispensable survival guide for the thinking therapist
Art Psychotherapy: The Wood Between the Worlds. - Malcolm Learmonth & Karen Huckvale. This article provides an introduction to Art Psychotherapy. By kind permission of New Therapist who published this piece in their Jan/Feb 2008 issue. See other articles from this international journal at www.newtherapist.com
No: 10
Shared Territories An audit and analysis of the Arts and Health Sector in the South West based on research undertaken in 2005. A research report by Ruth Hecht, Arts Council England and Arts & Health South West 2006. See: www.artsandhealthsouthwest.org.uk and artscouncil.org.uk
No: 9
Changing Our Minds - Malcolm Learmonth.
By kind permission of OpenMind, who published this piece July / August 2005 Issue. OpenMind publish many articles from their excellent journal at: www.mind.org.uk/shopping/openmind. The paper is an attempt to outline as user friendly rationale for why art therapy works, from an evolutionary perspective.
No: 8
Support for the Arts in Health from Art Therapy - Malcolm Learmonth and Karen Huckvale.
This paper was written for the National Network for Arts in Health website, where it is also available. This paper sets out some of the similarities, differences and common ground between the arts therapies and the arts in health, and how they can and should work together. www.nnah.org.uk.
No: 7
Painting Ourselves Out of a Corner - Malcolm Learmonth.
This Paper is the full version of the keynote speech given to the Scottish Arts Therapies Forum Conference in Edinburgh in 2002. An edited form was published in the British Association of Art Therapists Newsbriefing. It addresses an arts therapies audience about the ways that the they need to think carefully about how the language and presentation of a rationale for therapy practice can lead to misperceptions. Scottish Arts Therapies Forum are at www.satf.org.uk.
No: 6
Making a Case for art therapy based on the NICE Guidelines on Depression - Malcolm Learmonth.
This work on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines on the most common mental health problems was commissioned by the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT), www.baat.org. This is a short account of using the guidelines to argue for better therapy services.
No: 5
The NICE Guidelines on Depression, an analysis from an art therapy perspective - Malcolm Learmonth.
This is a longer deconstruction of how the ‘evidence’ is constructed in ways that exclude complex psychological therapies like the arts therapies. It both gives the grounds for challenging the frequently misrepresented ‘evidence’, and highlights the many ways in which it is not as clear it as it is made to appear!
No: 4
Arts Creativity and Mental Health Initiative: Mental Health Foundation.
This report, with an endorsement from Malcolm Learmonth as Arts and Health Lead for the British Association of Art Therapists, outlines the results of offering arts therapies at four pilot sites in rural Scotland. The ACMI report is convincing in its findings that ordinary people “were positive that art therapy had helped them, especially with improvement to self esteem and added meaning to their lives”, that a life could be “totally changed by the experience”.
No: 3
Art therapy and its uses: Malcolm Learmonth. Click on this link to go to this paper, published in Community Care, January 07.
No: 2
'Creative Thinking'. This overview of art therapy by Malcolm Learmonth, was published in Disability Product News in February 2007 (http://www.disabilityproductnews.co.uk), and is reproduced here with their kind permission. It includes a valuable service user account of art therapy by Kathleen Gibson. It's quite a big file, so only try this if you have a fast connection! For a smaller, text only version, click here.
No: 1
'What Evidence'. Published by Openmind in December 2007, this article sums up why 'NICE' processes and concepts of evidence do a disservice to psychological therapies, and to service users. OpenMind publish many articles from their excellent journal at:
www.mind.org.uk/shopping/openmind
DOCUMENTS: These are previously unpublished papers we believe are valuable contributions to the literature. We will continue to add to them...
No: 14
We were asked to make available the presentation Malcolm Learmonth gave to the annual conference and AGM of Arts and Health Southwest in November 2011. This slightly amended version takes out some of the previosly unpublished images. The starting point for this exploration was quite personal, and is best reflected in Malcolm's Chapter 'Recovery and Creativity' in 'Beyond the Storms: Reflections on Personal Recovery in Devon' Published by Devon Partnership NHS Trust in 2010.
The results of the visual art workshop that followed can be downloaded here. Below is just a little taste!
No:13
The Ophelia Syndrome by Paulette Harrison.
Paulette gave her presentation 'The Ophelia Syndrome' at the Theoretical Advances of Art Therapy conference in 1996.
She has recently re-edited this useful paper (a 7 page PDF) which explores the image of Shakespere's Ophelia as a startlingly apt visual metaphor for the effects of sexual and emotional abuse. Paulette has kindly given us permission to make it available here.
No: 12
Pauline McGee presented at What's the Story, the Sixth Exeter Arts & Therapies conference.
She has recently made this document about her work available. It contains many pictures. There is also a link to her website.
Time, Place, Form,and Space. 12 page PDF
No: 11
Nature & Nurture: The Image, the Word and the World.
Seventh Exeter Arts & Therapies Conference
For full conference report and more pictures click here.
Click for Mystery Shopper's conference review.
Click for Delegate Feedback and picture.
Details of the eighth Exeter Arts & Therapies conference will appear in the autumn.
No:10
Externalising Exceptions - Mark Hayward
Mark made this highly useful handout available to accompany his talk given at the sixth EATc conference in 2007.
No: 9
The image is its' own best explanation - Michael Edwards
This hand out accompanied Michaels talk given at the sixth EATc conference in 2007.
No: 8
Information Leaflet - Caspar Walsh
Caspar gave a talk at the sixth EATc conference in 2007. This is his information leaflet.
No: 7
The Reenchantment of Art Therapy - Marilyn Miller.
This paper, given at the EATc conference in 2003, addresses connections between art therapy and current art practice.
‘Sometimes, the wider society needs attention, as well as the individual or family. Can art therapy draw on models of new genre public art and social activism? This brings potential for new ways of working with communities, and reaffirms art therapists as artists.’
Marilyn can be contacted at: mm.m@virgin.net.
No: 6
Working with Children in Jerusalem - Ruth Guttfreund.
This is a moving account by an Art Therapist of working with children who are caught up in armed conflict, sessions at times taking place literally in an air raid shelter.
‘In these times of such political turmoil and violence it has been interesting to observe how the external frightening reality has affected children, their artwork and what comes into the art therapy room…’
Ruth is now living and working in El Salvador. She can be contacted at: rutdebogut@hotmail.com.
No: 5
With all their tenderness intact: the arts, otherness and political violence' -
Malcolm Learmonth. This previously unpublished paper examines some connections between war, trauma and the arts, and reaches some possibly surprising conclusions....
No: 4
Why Art Therapy Makes Sense - Malcolm Learmonth and Karen Huckvale.
This is an example of a handout used with Insider Art Introductory Workshops. It endeavours to give participants an accessible summary of what they’ve hopefully learned in the course of a day, and live up to its title!
No: 3
A Gap in the Arts - Malcolm Learmonth and Karen Huckvale.
This paper was written for a-n (Artists Newsletter) in 2002, but was never published. It revisits the arts therapies/ arts and health continuum, this time by addressing some of the blind spots that can come up in arts and health practice. It argues for more ‘joined up thinking’ across the field.
No: 2
Accompanying Notes to the EXEhibition
This is the documentary aspect of the photographic exhibition that is showcased on the Karen Huckvale Gallery Page. The images are photographs of the River Exe as it flows through the city of Exeter, and this material gives the engineering, historical and symbolic contexts for the project.
No: 1
'Art Therapy: A Flexible Mental Health Resource for GP Referrers.'
Prepared by Malcolm Learmonth with the Devon and Cornwall Art Therapists Group, This leaflet, while a few yeas old now, still seems to be being used by art therapists as an introductory flyer.
Malcolm Learmonth's presentation to the British Association of Art Therpaists AGM, 'The World Turned Upside Down: Renewing Art Therapy' can now be downloaded from here as a PDF.
It's adapted a little to make more sense, but is only the visual aspect of a spoken talk.