Black and White: Applying Derrida to Contradictory Experiences in an Art Therapy Group for Victims of Torture

Skaife, Sally

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“…This accords with De Mare et al 's (1991) view that the immediate aimlessness of the large group enables an equality among voices. Perhaps, in addition, the ATLG's different modes of voice in speech, art, performance and so on allow a space for hidden voices to be heard (Skaife, 2013).…”

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“…The art therapy education literature emphasises the importance of consideration of issues of race and culture in art therapy education (Brooks, 1999;Lark, 2005;Linesch, 2005;Skaife, 2007Skaife, , 2013Ward, 1999;Westwood, 2010). It is interesting then to consider how the ATLG differs from those strategies described in the literature to address this important topic and the relevance of the survey findings to this.…”

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The impact of the Art Therapy Large Group, an educational tool in the training of art therapists, on post-qualification professional practice

Skaife¹,

Jones

Pentaris

2016

International Journal of Art Therapy

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This article reports the findings of a Likert scale survey that was sent to past graduates of the MA Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of London asking them about the relevance of their experience in the Art Therapy Large Group (ATLG) to their subsequent employment as art therapists or work in another capacity. The ATLG comprises all the students and staff in a psychodynamically based experiential group that meets six times during the year. Survey questions were drawn from previously devised theory and related to learning relevant to the workplace and the development of professional identity. Though there was a low response rate (20%), there were some significant findings, namely that graduates found the ATLG to be helpful in their work, whether this was art therapy or non-art therapy work, and that those who had studied part-time were much more positive about the applicability of their learning in the group to their work than those who had studied full-time. The findings suggest that the ATLG has a particular role in meeting key performance indicators in professional regulation and teaching and in quality assurance and employability policies in higher education. Finally, the potential for the use of the ATLG beyond the university in the public, private and voluntary sectors is suggested.

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Section: Equality and Diversitymentioning

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The impact of the Art Therapy Large Group, an educational tool in the training of art therapists, on post-qualification professional practice

Skaife¹,

Jones

Pentaris

2016

International Journal of Art Therapy

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“…Such thinkers have illuminated the arbitrary and inherent instability of oppositions. Derrida described how in oppositional binaries, one side dominates while the other is suppressed (one associated with positively and the other negatively), depending on the discourse (Skaife, 2013). They do not have equal opposing relationships of power (Cornforth, 2006).…”

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Developing post-ableist music therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability

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<p>This PhD examined a therapist’s experience of illness/disability to see if any new light could be shed on music therapy whilst also finding ways to navigate disability as a practitioner. There has not been adequate research attention given to the experiences of music therapists who have an illness/disability. The position is often negotiated in isolation with minimal tools and resources. An arts-based autoethnography was used to determine how the close examination of one’s personal experience with illness/disability can impact on practice, how the work can be negotiated, and to uncover any new practical or theoretical meanings. Furthermore, it looked to determine what arts-based autoethnography could offer one’s practice. A poststructural lens was used that drew on social constructionism, feminism, and the work of Michel Foucault. Data generated from a music therapist’s practice, experiences of illness/disability, literature, and professional documents were analysed using Foucault’s “critical ontology of ourselves” (Foucault, 1984b, p. 47). Hidden processes of problematic ableism were found within the practice examined as well as in some educational and professional encounters. These regimes of ableism were supported by universalising and dichotomising discourses, namely humanism, western normativity, limited observable understandings of disability, and the enforcement of able/disabled divide through many binaries. The methodology provided the tools to reposition the practice to politicise disability and address ableism. Addressing ableism was found to be more complex than simply incorporating disability issues into existing contemporary frameworks. The analysis led to the development of Post-Ableist Music Therapy (PAMT). PAMT extended the relational ethic beyond what was present in the prior practice by drawing on aspects of posthumanism, agonistic plurality, and increasing the visibility of disability studies and crip theory. Therefore, PAMT offers a different lens to the critical orientations’ apparatus: a social justice practice not based on empowerment and humanism but on agonism and posthumanism instead. As there is a lag in the theorisation of ableism, PAMT provides an alternative framework that can be applied to current approaches to increase our professional consciousness of ableism. By repositioning the practice and exploring alternative subjectivities, the professional and personal narratives of a therapist experiencing illness/disability became more integrated, working with–not against–each other in a shared activism. The methodology fostered an increased ethical care of the self; offered tools that critiqued what we are; experimented with going beyond the limits imposed on us. The use of such tools could have wider application in the everyday practices of therapists. The findings have significant implications for practice and training, as the challenges people and societies face cannot be adequately dealt with without tools to explicitly uncover and address normalisation and ableism.</p>

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Decolonizing Group Analysis: What does it mean?

Blackwell

2023

Group Analysis

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Decolonizing is not a finite process with a beginning and an end, though there are signs that it is being taken up in that way. It is therefore in danger of being fetishised and incorporated into the very colonial system it sets out to call into question. It is instead an ongoing dialogue, a praxis involving both colonizers and decolonizers. And it is an internal struggle for decolonizers with the colonizing and colonized parts of ourselves. It calls into question all established theories and discourses of group analysis and of Western psychotherapy generally, embedded as they are in Western philosophical traditions and forms of ‘knowledge’. It supports the empowerment of subaltern voices addressing the unity of patriarchy, racism and class exploitation wherever they occur.

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Black and White: Applying Derrida to Contradictory Experiences in an Art Therapy Group for Victims of Torture

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The impact of the Art Therapy Large Group, an educational tool in the training of art therapists, on post-qualification professional practice

The impact of the Art Therapy Large Group, an educational tool in the training of art therapists, on post-qualification professional practice

Developing post-ableist music therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability

Decolonizing Group Analysis: What does it mean?

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