Art Psychotherapy Groups in The Hostile Environment of Neoliberalism

Sally Skaife, PhD, is an art therapist and group analyst working in mental health. She was a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London; a chair of the British Association of Art Therapists; a member of the editorial board of Inscape and, currently, ATOL; and has numerous publications. Jon Martyn is an art psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. He was a lecturer at Goldsmiths College and co-founded the New Art Studio, a therapeutic art studio for refugees and asylum seekers with Tania Kaczynski. He now lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Part 1. Resisting Capture; 1. The Hostile Environment, Sally Skaife and Jon Martyn; 2. Caught in Contradiction, Sally Skaife and Jon Martyn; 3. Art Therapy as Resistance, Sally Skaife and Jon Martyn; Part 2. Grenfell; 4. Latimer Community Art Therapy: Developing from the Grassroots after Grenfell, Susan Rudnik; 5. ‘This is Our Group’: Art Therapy with Adolescents in the Shadow of Grenfell, Beulah Lambert; 6. Don’t go out that door: The pressure on a school to perform/conform whilst its community faces the aftermath of a disaster, Holly Caldecourt; Part 3. Against All Odds; 7. A place of safety or a hostile environment?: How enactment in an art psychotherapy group revealed impacts of immigration controls on the mental health of asylum seekers and migrants detained in a psychiatric unit, Annamaria Cavaliero; 8. Prison Cells: Transgenerational trauma and art psychotherapy groups with women in prison, Jessica Collier; 9. Protested Space: Artworks made in a therapeutic art studio under threat from cuts, Helen Omand; 10. Witnessing the Edge: Reflections on Co-Facilitating a Men’s Art Therapy Group in a Refugee Camp in Greece, Emily Hollingsbee and Katie Miller; Epilogue: Politics in Action, Sally Skaife and Jon Martyn