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| Title: |
Unimaginable imagining: Fantasies and works off the margin |
| Author: |
Henzell, John |
| Appeared in: |
International journal of art therapy |
| Paging: | Volume 11 (2006) nr. 1 pages 13-21 |
| Year: |
2006-06-01 |
| Contents: |
Since the 1940s art therapists have often worked with marginalised people and marginalised imaginations. The expressions of this can be strikingly original, yet fit uneasily with any genre. Artists becoming therapists were presented with radical opportunities to witness, support and possibly befriend those possessing, or possessed by, ways of seeing, feeling and thinking contradicting conventional consciousness. This was particularly true in the large populations inhabiting psychiatric institutions in Britain until the 1980s. This paper describes the work and 'performances' of five people; three of whom it was possible to know well, and the unusual ways of being of the others could only be experienced. The approach is not 'scientifically' clinical but more like anthropological reportage and stories about 'characters'. Change is of course aim of psychotherapy, but so is witnessed. No matter what traumas lay in their past, over time they had become who they most memorably were. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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