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Get PDFWe extend a warm welcome to Vicky Nicholls, B. Ed, Grad Dip Child, Adolescent and Family Therapies, M. Art Therapy, AThR, as she joins the ATOL Editorial Board. Vicky is Senior Art Therapist at Austin Health’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and a lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia on the Master of Art Therapy training. We are sorry to say goodbye to Diana Collins from the Editorial Board and to thank Diana for her input into this issue of the journal.
The creative and diverse ways in which art therapists understand and use art are clearly seen in two papers published in this edition of ATOL: Art Therapy on Line. It reminds us of the power and potential of art to further our understanding of ourselves, each other and our contexts, both contemporarily and historically. Both papers are concerned with how art processes and art products can be understood and used to reflect upon and research complex questions and issues related to practice, identity, power and privilege; themes that are also present in the five reviews in this edition. The papers and reviews also share a common theme around collaboration, a process which is central to ATOL\u27s ideology (and central to the endeavour of therapy) and which is especially important during a period where the contexts in which we practice continue to over-promote competitiveness and market-place ideology
Responsive Art Psychotherapy as a component of intervention for severe adolescent mental illness: a case study
Get PDFIn this paper the author aims to describe the development of Responsive Art Psychotherapy, an innovative multidirectional psychodynamic art therapy intervention. This was developed in the context of working alongside non-art therapists within a multi disciplinary team. Using clinical material from a detailed case study, the paper explores how the use of language can be bypassed through the contact made in and with the images. This is supported by recent research into neurobiological theory of trauma and patients’ incapacity to verbalise in the context of severe mental illness and distress.Keywords: Response art making; art psychotherapy; countertransference; trauma & role of images; innovative practice
Hierophants of Decadence: Bliss Carman and Arthur Symons
Get PDFDecadence came to Canada softly, almost imperceptibly, in the 1880s, when the Confederation poet Bliss Carman published his first poems and met the English chronicler and leading poet of Decadence, Arthur Symons. The event of Decadence has gone largely unnoticed in Canada; there is no equivalent to David Weir’s Decadent Culture in the United States: Art and Literature Against the American Grain (2008), as perhaps has been the fate of Decadence elsewhere. As a literary movement it has been, until a recent slew of publications on British Decadence, relegated to a transitional or threshold period. As Jason David Hall and Alex Murray write: ‘It is common practice to read [...] decadence as an interstitial moment in literary history, the initial “falling away” from high Victorian literary values and forms before the bona fide novelty of modernism asserted itself’. This article is, in part, an attempt to bring Canadian Decadence into focus out of its liminal state/space, and to establish Bliss Carman as the representative Canadian Decadent. To begin with, I situate the fin de siècle in Canada and examine the fruitful literary connection between Carman and Symons; then I read Carman’s poem ‘The Eavesdropper’ through a Decadent lens and continue toward an articulation of a distinctly Canadian Decadence. For the major part, I desire nothing less than to secure a foothold for Carman as the Father of Canadian Decadence
The Royal Naval Air Service and Anti-Submarine Warfare in the North Sea, 1917 – 1918
Get PDFThis paper examines the role of the Royal Naval Air Service in the anti- submarine warfare and convoy protection campaigns of 1917-1918. During this crisis of the naval war, Britain’s naval aviators carried out coastal air patrols, directly bombed Germany’s submarine bases in Belgium, and flew aerial escort missions in support of merchant convoys. These operations are rarely considered in the literature on anti-submarine warfare, but form an integral component of the Royal Navy’s holistic approach to defeating Germany’s U-boats, and ultimately directly contributed to the allied victory in the First World War
Etsuko Takushi Crissey, translated by Steve Rabson, Okinawa’s GI Brides: Their Lives in America
Get PDFJoris-Karl Huysmans, Drifting (À vau-l’eau), translated by Brendan King (Sawtry: Dedalus, 2017)
Get PDFJ.-K. Huysmans (1848-1907) is considered an important figure in not one, but two nineteenth-century literary movements: Naturalism and Decadence. The novella À vau-l’eau, published in 1882, might be said to hover astride the line dividing the two and to encompass his stylistic transition from the former to the latter, containing as it does both the meticulous attention to the realistic and often mundane details of everyday life that is characteristic of Naturalism, and the self-loathing malaise that is a prominent feature of Decadent art and literature