Art as Therapy

Highligthed in an email by Andrew Martyn Sugars, I find myself returning to worries about confidentiality and safeguarding the thoughts and opinions of myself, others on my course and those I work with in a clinical capacity through my placement. There is a lot more that I’d liked to say though often what gets posted is often a skewed version of my actual activities as an MA Art Psychotherapy student. On the other hand the blog has been extremely useful to me personally in terms of being able to organise my thoughts and drawing out connections between my position as an artist and as a developing art therapist. As such it might worth reviewing what this blog means to me and how it’s aims can be refined so as to be more accessible to others. Incidentally I’ve been really encouraged by other people’s feedback so far as there seems to be a lot interest about what art psychotherapy is (particularly from individuals who might also be interested in applying for the course). Perhaps this needs to become more of a focus.