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Caitlin Galante DeAngelis, The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
Full text linkThe Composition of Army Rum, 1917
Full text linkThe composition of Royal Navy rum is not only a subject of commercial importance but has been the subject of serious examination both online and in a monograph dealing with the history of rum in that service. The composition of British Army rum, on the other hand, has not been seriously examined due to a lack of suitable source material. Using lists drawn up by the Port of London Authority in 1917, a detailed breakdown of the component rums, by place of origin, of the Army’s blend is now possible, confirming the impressions of contemporaries that it was not the same as that of the Navy
Stefanie Linden, Beyond the Great Silence: The Legacy of Shell Shock in Britain and Germany, 1918-1924
Full text linkMinna´s Gift：A Case Study of Art therapy with a 16 year-old Adolescent in Residential Care (English Version)
No full textThe case study is a well-established methodology in psychotherapy, providing a means to articulate the therapist’s explorations, questions, insights, reflections, and formulations. It enables in-depth dialogue within the professional community through the sharing of session material, while also supporting the therapist’s ongoing process of conceptualising and understanding the client’s psychological experience. This case study arises from my wish to explore more deeply the phenomenon of gift-giving of my teenage client, Minna, who lives in a residential care facility and consistently gives her artworks as gifts to others, including her parents and the care staff. In this paper, I document Minna’s art therapy process alongside my own reflections, developing thoughts, and formulations, which I situate within a psychodynamic framework and relevant literature. Writing Minna’s case serves not only as a method of thinking, but also as a way of moving closer to her experience and opening dialogue within the art therapy professional community.
Key words
Art Therapy, Adolescence, Residential care, Object Relations Theory, Gift-giving, Trauma, Exhibitio
Mindful Transformation and Insight in Art Therapy: Comparison of three case studies (English Version)
No full textThis collaborative work examines the applicability of Starke\u27s (2014, 2019) model of the \u27four phases of mindful transformation\u27 to art therapy processes for analysing the insight process of clients. The starting point and theoretical basis for this work were the case study by Reiter (2022), which addressed this question in relation to the effectiveness of art therapy and substantiated and expanded on it through interviews with clients. The studies conducted by Andergassen (2021) and Wiesinger (2021) under different conditions and settings were used to investigate whether these model phases could also be identified in this context and to draw conclusions for further research.
The present study provides evidence that Starkes\u27 model was suitable as an analytical tool for investigating the effectiveness of art therapy in relation to the cognitive process in these three cases. However, the results must be verified by further case studies.
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Mindful attitude, cognitive process, four phases of mindful transformation, creative process, creative element, transformation proces
On the Difficulty of Writing Anything about Anybody: navigating alternative forms of writing in a therapeutic art studio community
Full text linkI am going to briefly describe some of the tangle of issues I encounter when I consider writing about people I have worked with. These issues need unpicking as they are about ethics, power and hierarchy. They are about relationships, and as such are also emotional. These complex considerations are part of any writing by therapists about clients, as evidenced in this current issue of ATOL on case studies. I have found versions of these dynamics exist in a particular way in the therapeutic community type setting where I work. In this brief reflection I will introduce the dynamics of my setting, and then present three of my attempts to navigate writing about my setting. These involved finding ways of writing with rather than about the members of this community. The writing took the form of interviews and editing artist statements (Omand 2022b), co-authoring (Omand 2022a), and reflective writing on my own art practice (Omand 2022c)
On Ethics in Practice: The use of client narratives and creative outputs in community and Not-for-Profit art therapy settings
Full text linkAcross 15 years of professional engagement in art therapy within homelessness, family violence and public and community mental health services in Victoria, Australia, I have repeatedly encountered organisational requests to procure client narratives and creative outputs from those accessing therapeutic programs. From art works to personal stories and more, these requests typically stem from institutional imperatives to evaluate service efficacy, substantiate program legitimacy, promote organisational services and secure ongoing funding—a process well-documented in the literature on community-based interventions (Gilroy, 2006; Rossi et al., 2019). Such expectations necessitate the provision of concrete evidence, including client stories, artworks and testimonials, so as to demonstrate measurable outcomes. However, this practice often foregrounds profound ethical tensions for art therapists, particularly regarding the authenticity of informed consent, the dynamics of power within therapeutic relationships and the potential long-term ramifications of disseminating personal material as circumstances change and evolve over a lifetime
The Anatomy of Curiosity and Cosmopolitanism: Lafcadio Hearn’s Medical Imagination
Full text linkA decade before he made a one-way journey to Japan in 1890, in an article entitled ‘Travel An Educating Influence’ (1880), Lafcadio Hearn, the inquisitive young journalist then working for the New Orleans Item, declared his departure from conventional ideas of nationalism, and instead determined to make ‘one step toward a new and vast movement’ of cosmopolitanism.[i] Rather than abolishing local and historical peculiarities or going back to old nationalistic provincialism, Hearn pleaded for cosmopolitanism by way of curiosity – the insatiable ‘desire or inclination to know or learn about anything’, especially what is novel or strange.[ii] Recent work on Hearn’s cosmopolitanism, by Stefano Evagelista and others, has brought to light the manner in which this characteristic curiosity attached itself to the art, literature, and religious practices of the cultures he encountered.[iii] However, it has tended to overlook the central place of the medical and the scientific in Hearn’s transnational imagination.
[i] Hearn, ‘Travel An Educating Influence’, Item (6 February 1880), in Buying Christmas Toys and Other Essays, ed. by Ichiro Nishizaki (Hokuseido, 1939), pp. 31–34 (p. 32).
[ii] See the entry ‘curiosity’ (I.5.b) in the Oxford English Dictionary <https://www.oed.com> [accessed 10 July 2025].
[iii] Stefano Evangelista, ‘Lafcadio Hearn and Global Aestheticism’, in Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere (Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 72–116
Nigeria: Fifty Years After the Civil War
Full text linkThe thrust of this article is Nigeria: 50 years after the civil war. The end of the war in January 1970 heralded an era of measures by successive governments at re-integrating the Igbo and forging national unity. As laudable as the measures are, there exist gaps in many of them between intent and practice. Many people continue to raise concern as to when the Igbo will be truly integrated into Nigeria and the centrifugal forces of ethnic and religious chauvinism tamed within Nigerian society. Using primary and secondary sources, this article concludes that true re-integration of the Igbo remains a mirage and to avert another civil war, successive leaders need to demonstrate genuine commitment to patriotism and national unity