UID:
almahu_9949385331902882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) :
,
chiefly color illustrations
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781003107408
,
1003107400
,
9781000528954
,
1000528952
,
9781000529067
,
1000529061
Content:
"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 which marginalises groups 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"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Art psychotherapy groups in the hostile environment of neoliberalism Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9780367619855
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003107408
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003107408
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