Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies

Edited by Jessica Collier & Corrina Eastwood. Foreword by Savneet K. Talwar

Moving forward the conversation on the long called for greater consideration of identity, politics and social justice in practice, this book positions an understanding of intersectionality as critical for effective arts psychotherapy. It confronts the impact of gender, sexuality, race, age, disability and class in both typical settings for arts psychotherapy work and in the wider profession.

ForewordSavneet TalwarIntroductionJessica Collier and Corrina EastwoodChapter One Intersectional Reflexivity: Art psychotherapy practice and selfCorrina EastwoodChapter TwoColonialised Attachment: A dramatherapy perspectiveWabriya KingChapter ThreeKnowing and Acting: Intersectionality and countertransference in clinical workS.J. LangerChapter FourSkin to Paper: The body in art psychotherapyGeorgina EvansChapter Five"Haven't You Done Well": From working class to class-blindSarah Furneaux-BlickChapter SixSnaky Crazy Lady and the Air Head Princess: Considering colourblind intersectionality and normative unconscious processes in psychodynamic art psychotherapyCorrina EastwoodChapter SevenConsent and the-rapist: Positions of power in art psychotherapy with a sex offenderJessica CollierChapter Eight Therapists Too: Disclosure and solidarity at the crossroads of art therapy, survivorhood and activismSejal ChadChapter NineIntersecting Identities in a War Zone: A music therapist's perspective on group work in West Bank, Palestine.Eleni TsolkaChapter TenCulturally Appropriate Art Therapy in the Sikh Community: Theory and practiceJaspal Kaur Lotay and Corrina EastwoodChapter ElevenA Black Therapist Sees Herself: Exploring sameness and difference in the dramatherapy roomKairo MaynardChapter Twelve"Men Just Hit You": Sexism and internalised misogyny in art psychotherapy with female offendersJessica CollierChapter ThirteenDisabled and LGBTQ+: A music therapy perspectiveNaomi RoweChapter FourteenOn the Outskirts: Founding an intersectional feminist art therapy charityCorrina Eastwood, Gillian Datien, Charlotte Ellston and Noa YeheskelChapter FifteenApproaches to Intersectionality through inclusive group dialogues across identities within the informal and Higher Education sector: Traversing the unknownHayley BermanContributors