Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies

Jessica Collier is an art psychotherapist and clinical supervisor working with women in the female prison estate and women and men with complex personalities in the criminal justice system. She lectures nationally and internationally on forensic art psychotherapy and has published widely, focusing on trauma and unconscious re-enactments in forensic institutions and wider society. Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group, visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and senior lecturer at the University of Roehampton. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy. Corrina Eastwood is a practicing artist, activist and art psychotherapist. She has worked in a variety of settings including schools, hospitals, homeless hostels, therapeutic communities and charities. She is founder of the not for profit feminist arts organisation Sweet 'Art which has to date hosted over forty art exhibitions and projects privileging the voices of women and marginalised groups and exploring important social issues through the arts. She has published academically on working with women with a BPD diagnosis from a feminist perspective in art psychotherapy and has worked at the Hertfordshire University as a visiting lecturer. In 2017 she founded the feminist art psychotherapy charity Outskirts with an aim to work with a focus on survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault. She also currently works as an art therapist and supervisor in private practice.

Foreword
Savneet Talwar

Introduction
Jessica Collier and Corrina Eastwood

Chapter One
Intersectional Reflexivity: Art psychotherapy practice and self
Corrina Eastwood

Chapter Two
Colonialised Attachment: A dramatherapy perspective
Wabriya King

Chapter Three
Knowing and Acting: Intersectionality and countertransference in clinical work
S.J. Langer

Chapter Four
Skin to Paper: The body in art psychotherapy
Georgina Evans



Chapter Five
"Haven't You Done Well": From working class to class-blind
Sarah Furneaux-Blick

Chapter Six
Snaky Crazy Lady and the Air Head Princess: Considering colourblind intersectionality and normative unconscious processes in psychodynamic art psychotherapy
Corrina Eastwood

Chapter Seven
Consent and the-rapist: Positions of power in art psychotherapy with a sex offender
Jessica Collier

Chapter Eight
Therapists Too: Disclosure and solidarity at the crossroads of art therapy, survivorhood and activism
Sejal Chad

Chapter Nine
Intersecting Identities in a War Zone: A music therapist's perspective on group work in West Bank, Palestine.
Eleni Tsolka

Chapter Ten
Culturally Appropriate Art Therapy in the Sikh Community: Theory and practice
Jaspal Kaur Lotay and Corrina Eastwood
Chapter Eleven
A Black Therapist Sees Herself: Exploring sameness and difference in the dramatherapy room
Kairo Maynard

Chapter Twelve
"Men Just Hit You": Sexism and internalised misogyny in art psychotherapy with female offenders
Jessica Collier

Chapter Thirteen
Disabled and LGBTQ+: A music therapy perspective
Naomi Rowe

Chapter Fourteen
On the Outskirts: Founding an intersectional feminist art therapy charity
Corrina Eastwood, Gillian Datien, Charlotte Ellston and Noa Yeheskel

Chapter Fifteen
Approaches to Intersectionality through inclusive group dialogues across identities within the informal and Higher Education sector: Traversing the unknown
Hayley Berman

Contributors