Art Psychotherapy Groups in The Hostile Environment of Neoliberalism: Collusion or Resistance?
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : February 2022
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 204
- Category :
Expressive Arts Therapies - Catalogue No : 96318
- ISBN 13 : 9780367619848
- ISBN 10 : 0367619849
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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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