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Painting My Heart Songs: My Journey with an Art Therapist
No full textI started working with my current art therapist in 2020. I had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease on top of ongoing chronic fatigue and severe Complex PTSD resulting from trauma. Prior to my autoimmune diagnosis, I was working in a leadership position professionally and excelling in this context. In the months following my diagnosis, it became apparent I was no longer able to work in the role and I had to resign. I was experiencing ongoing pain, severe fatigue and mental health challenges.
I have an extensive mental health history with multiple hospital admissions, different forms of therapies and ECT. My diagnosis of complex PTSD also included dissociative identity disorder and depersonalisation. This had been stable between 2018 and 2020. Unfortunately, being forced to resign from a job I was passionate about resulted in a re-emergence of dissociative symptoms, grief and an unclear sense of identity. I knew it was time to seek a therapist
Mentalization in Art Therapy – a case study (English Version)
No full textThis article examines the reciprocal relationship between psychodynamic art therapy and the concept of mentalisation against the backdrop of object relations theories. It considers this to be a helpful concept for viewing triangulation processes in art therapy as promoting mentalisation and for classifying them in the existing literature review. The case history examines the development of mentalisation-promoting processes in the context of a two-year art therapy intervention with an adult individual in a clinical setting and in outpatient art therapy.
Key words
Mentalisation, attachment, object relations, triangulation, joint shared attention, symbolisation, traumatisation, early childhood attachment trauma, depression, eating disorder, suicidalit
Verletzung (German Version)
No full textBeide Werke stammen aus meiner kunsttherapeutischen Praxis in einer Grundschule in Berlin. Thomas und Marius kommen seit ca. einem Jahr zu mir in die Kunsttherapie. Thomas gestaltete in seiner Handinnenfläche mit einer selbst hergestellten Masse aus Klebstoff und roter Farbe eine Art Trompe-l\u27oeil-Wunde in seiner rechten Handfläche. (Abb. 1). Nach der Fertigstellung sagte er: "Mit dieser [Wunde] werde ich meinen Vater erschrecken. Dafür nehme ich eine Säge aus seinem Werkzeugkasten." Dazu ist es jedoch nicht gekommen, da sich die „Wunde“ über den weiteren Schultag hindurch verwischte
Lafcadio Hearn’s Proto-Buddhist, ‘Oceanic’ Caribbean Vision
Full text linkLafcadio Hearn’s early writings relating to the sea and evolution are precursors to what I call the cosmic or oceanic meditations of the later work, where the (Buddhist) oceanic quality of time and space takes a central place in his thinking about the universe. As has been shown, Hearn was one of the first European Victorians to imaginatively engage with Buddhism, fitting his own lived experience to ancient ideas newly (re)discovered and conveyed to the West from Indian, Ceylonese, Chinese, and Japanese texts, made available by the work of academic Buddhologists like Eugène Burnouf and Max Müller.[i] Such works introduced a whole new paradigm of thinking, enabling new ways of conceiving reality, which has continued for nearly two centuries with the gradual transmission and transculturation of Buddhist concepts out of its heartlands and into other fields and cultures the world over. In this article I address some of Hearn’s earliest Buddhist tendencies in his Caribbean writings, his painterly descriptions of land- and sea-scapes, and how these meld into vast synaesthetic mindscapes, intimations of deeper and timeless truths – of borderless infinity and incessant change, and the transitoriness of experience. Once these writings begin to be seen within the framework of the developing Buddhist ontology in Hearn’s œuvre, as outlined in The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn, Hearn’s early tropical writing takes on a deeper significance and dimension – as a precursor and preparation for that greater framework, that deeper ontology that flowers in Japan.
[i] John Antony Goedhals, The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East (Brill, 2020), p. 141
Last Ditch: The British Army in Southeast England, 1940
Full text linkThis article examines the state of XII Corps, which occupied the most threatened corner of England during the invasion crisis of 1940. Drawing upon research in the UK National Archives and secondary sources, this article argues that early-war British commanders better understood the tactical challenges posed by the German Army than has previously been accepted, and in particular understood the need for dynamic training and a mission-specific doctrine
The British Southern Strategy in the American Revolution, 1775-1782
Full text linkThe British southern strategy was not a side-show or afterthought in the world war that began as the American Revolution (1775-1783), but a part of the planning efforts from the earliest days of the war. Implementation of this strategy continued for more than two years after Cornwallis’ famous surrender at Yorktown, which resulted from the failure of the southern strategy. This article argues for a new assessment of the war within this context, while examining the importance and ultimate failure of these campaigns
Using archival sources to identify battlefield sites and the fates of the missing: The First Battle of Bullecourt 1917 as a case history
Full text linkThe First Battle of Bullecourt took place in April 1917 and two study cases of the Australian missing from that event have been investigated. Firstly, the fate of Captain Allan Edwin Leane, and secondly the fate of an unaccounted group of wounded last seen in a German dugout. Australian and German unit diaries were used in conjunction with mapping and aerial photography to determine what happened and where
