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Senses of memory in dementia care: the transcendent subject
Get PDFSensory stimuli are a whole body, mind, time, and space experience. During the arts therapy encounter memories are recalled through sensory stimulation and scent, sound, texture and taste amongst people with dementia, which can encourage transcendence from the temporal realities of loss. Gerotranscendence (Stephenson 2013) occurs when arts and the unconscious combine. This article reflects upon sensory arts therapy processes and outcomes in an aged care home, with one case study as a focus. Theories of memory, sensory perception and technologies of care, throw light upon the transcendent subject. I take Foucault’s views on the contingent subject further to extend the idea of the transcendent subject as one whose preconscious is more prevalent and active than the conscious (Foucault 2003). This transcendence is not ‘madness’ but rather a kind of freedom that is often outside of the immediate politics of institutional care and one in which arts therapy has noticeable agency.Keywords: Arts therapy; aged care; body; memory; senses; transcendence
The Devil in the Detail: An Introduction to Decadent Occultism from the Editors
Get PDFThe double meaning of ‘occult’ refers to the secret and the supernatural, and, just as ‘Decadent’ was both a pejorative term and a badge of honour in the nineteenth century, accusations of affiliation with the dark arts are being re-appropriated and celebrated by marginalized groups. The historical association of the occult with non-normativity and transgression means it has particular significance as a form of protest or protection in today’s era of ‘small-d’ decadence. There has been a recent extreme political swerve to the right, climate change denial threatens to end the world as we know it, and social media platforms are subject to deep corruption and involvement in a neo-Cold War, but bubbling under this surface is a queer rebellion associated with witchcraft and occult magick.
David Alvarez and Eduard Mark, Spying Through A Glass Darkly: American Espionage against the Soviet Union 1945-1946
Get PDFIn the margins: Art therapy with a homeless man under the influence of alcohol
Get PDFThis article presents a case study of short-term art therapy with a homeless man that was undertaken in a residential hostel by a trainee therapist. One of the features of this work was that the client was an alcoholic who came to his sessions in varying degrees of intoxication. Although this presented some challenges the authors argue that his engagement in a therapeutic process had meaning that could be understood through a clinical witnessing of enactments within the transference-countertransference matrix. This required paying close attention to countertransference phenomena as expressed through the trainee therapist’s art responses to sessions, which were explored in supervision.Keywords: homelessness, alcohol dependency, witnessing, art therapy, art therapy training, clinical supervision
Review: Transnational Poetics, Aestheticism, and Decadence at the Fin de Siècle, New York University, 14 May 2018
Get PDF New York City receives thousands of visitors daily, but perhaps none were more delightful than the scholars who arrived on 14 May 2018 to attend Transnational Poetics, Aestheticism, and Decadence at the Fin de Siècle at New York University. Organized by Professor Marion Thain (New York University), Dr Kate Hext (Exeter), and Professor Jane Desmarais (Goldsmiths), and sponsored by their respective institutions, the one-day symposium comprised a keynote by Professor Regenia Gagnier (Exeter) titled ‘Transcultural Poiesis and the Making of Community’, thirteen ten-minute position papers, and a discussion about fostering a transnational Aestheticism and Decadence network in the future
Review: Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose + Croix in Paris, 1892–1897, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 30 June – 4 October 2017, and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 28 October – 7 January 2018
Get PDFThis exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the first by a major museum (or any museum) to present those works displayed in the several salons staged by Joséphin Péladan (1858–1918), the decadent symbolist eccentric who styled himself Sâr Merodack, leader of L’Ordre de RoseXCroix du Temple et du Graal, the secret fraternal society Péladan established after a falling out with the occult poet Stanislas de Guaïta, head of a Rosicrucian sect. It is probably best not to ask how the esoteric system of the RXC differs from ‘orthodox’ Rosicrucianism. Historically, the Rosicrucian Brotherhood dates from 1614, when Fama Fraternitatis, dess Löblichen Ordens des Rosenkreutzes [The Declaration of the Worthy Order of the Rosy Cross] was published at Kassel, Germany. This book claimed that one Christian Rosenkreuz, whose life spanned the fin-de-siècle period between the 14th and 15th centuries, founded the secret order after a journey to the East. Two more books about the secret adventures of Herr Rosenkreuz appeared, the last and weirdest being Die Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosenkreutz [The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz] (1616)
Exploring Perceptions of Art Therapy through the Social Media
Get PDFHow art therapy is perceived and portrayed by the general public, especially those seeking mental health services remains a pressing issue. Social media is becoming a recognised way to share attitudes and beliefs in a public forum. To begin exploration on the topic of external perceptions of the art therapy profession, an inquiry into the use of social media for discussing art therapy was conducted. The aims of the study were to acknowledge general public opinion of art therapy through examining how art therapy was discussed in social forums. Thirteen relevant websites were identified and then further examined, using content analysis to reveal multiple themes. Based upon the findings, a number of implications were created to help expand the development of art therapy as a profession in this technologically savvy ageKeywords: Art therapy, health literacy, mental health, profession, perceptions, social media
Book Review. Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations. Edited by Tasha Colbert and Cornelia Bent
No full textThis edited volume, ‘Working across Modalities in the Arts Therapies’, offers a window into cross modality working and transdisciplinary practice within and between the arts therapies and related disciplines. The book adds to a growing body of literature that addresses interdisciplinary work with a focus on the place where the individual arts therapies meet and where the arts therapies meet other healthcare and psychological interventions, such as speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and nurses, for example, in a “joined up approach that adheres to core principles while accessing skills unique to each discipline”(p: xxii)
