The challenge for those treating or witnessing pain is to find a way of crossing the chasm of
meaning between them and the person living with pain. This paper proposes that images …

Pain is invisible and its experience highly subjective, making it hard to communicate. This
essay grew out of the Encountering Pain Conference at University College London that …

Contemporary Practice in Studio Art Therapy discovers where studio practice stands in the
profession today and reflects on how changing social, political, and economic contexts have …

Drawing can be a means of discovery, a way of working something out. I turned to drawing
in my practice as an art therapist working online during the Covid_19 pandemic. This …

This paper looks at whether we can bring art psychotherapy theory to understanding the role
of art in a new context; the medical pain consultation, as part of an experimental arts in …

This chapter is co-written by an art therapist and a member of the therapeutic art studio,
Studio Upstairs. Holding in mind their different roles and perspectives, the authors set out to …

Art has a rich history as an agent of protest. This chapter will consider how artworks, made in
a therapeutic art studio, were radical acts of protest for the group. Some of these artworks …

Pain...... is an individual experience, it can be all consuming and yet invisible, and when you
are in pain you are the only one that can really communicate that pain. So encountering pain …

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 …

How to define art therapy has been a somewhat vexatious question from the beginning of its
history. The reasons for this lie in the specific social, cultural, and political contexts in which …