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Art, Psychotherapy and Psychosis

The history of art therapy as a psychotherapeutic practice is inextricably linked
with clients suffering from psychosis. Art, Psychotherapy and Psychosis traces
the evolution of this specialized and innovative treatment in psychiatric and
psychotherapeutic settings and offers an overview of current practice.
Part I identifies specific clinical issues involved in working with psychosis.
The theoretical models applied reflect the influence of psychotherapy,
psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and psychiatry. Each chapter is written by
an experienced practitioner and draws on detailed case material illustrated with
examples of clients’ art work. The practices described extend existing theory and
develop the application of analytical approaches in art psychotherapy in the
treatment of borderline states as well as acute and long-term psychotic illnesses.
Part II recounts the historical context of art therapy and psychosis, from the early
influence of artists, its origins within psychiatric institutions, to the adaptations
which have been made in response to recent legislative changes.
Art, Psychotherapy and Psychosis represents the creative diversity of current
practice. Its new perspectives are essential reading for all those interested in
psychotherapeutic approaches to psychosis.

Katherine Killick is in private practice as a psychotherapist in St Albans. Joy
Schaverien is a Jungian analyst and art psychotherapist in private practice, an
Associate Professional Member of the Society of Analytical Psychology and
author of The Revealing Image (1991) and Desire and the Female Therapist
(1995).

Art, Psychotherapy and
Psychosis

Edited by Katherine Killick and Joy
Schaverien

London and New York

First published 1997
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Disclaimer: For copyright reasons, some images in the original version of this book are
not available for inclusion in the eBook.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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© 1997 Selection and editorial matter Katherine Killick and
Joy Schaverien; Individual chapters, the contributors

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Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Editors
ix
List of contributors
x
Acknowledgements
xii
Introduction
1
Joy Schaverien and Katherine Killick

Part I Art, psychotherapy and psychosis

1 Transference and transactional objects in the treatment of
psychosis
13
Joy Schaverien

2 Unintegration and containment in acute psychosis
38
Katherine Killick

3 Fear of three dimensionality: clay and plasticine as experimental bodies 52
Fiona Foster

4 Masturbation and painting
72
David Mann

5 Four views of the image
84
Fiona Seth-Smith

6 Psychosis and the maturing ego
106
Helen Greenwood

Part II Context and history

7 Has ‘psychotic art’ become extinct?
131
David Maclagan

8 The history of art therapy and psychosis 1938–95
144
Chris Wood

vi
Contents

9 Art, madness and anti-psychiatry: a memoir
176
John Henzell

10 The forgotten people
198
Claire Skailes

11 Where words fail: a meeting place
217
Sue Morter

12 Art psychotherapy and psychiatric rehabilitation
237
Terry Molloy

Index
261

Illustrations

1.1
Alice’s picture
22
1.2
The hand
26
1.3
Arrows
28
1.4
NO! Yes?
30
1.5
Freeze!
31
1.6
Fantasy world
33
1.7
Real world
33
2.1
Sleeping muse
49
3.1
Untitled 1
54
3.2
Speedboat
61
3.3
Pockets of love
63
3.4
Offertory
63
3.5
My father exposing himself
67
3.6
Untitled 2
68
3.7
Untitled 3
69
5.1
‘I didn’t know’
98
5.2
Orange squash house
101
6.1
Volcanic exotica
113
6.2
Walking the dog
113
6.3
Surf rider
114
6.4
Growth from decay
116
6.5
Renaissance
117
6.6
Pattern
119
6.7
Sinful pleasure
120
6.8
The ghoul
122
6.9
Chaise longue and old woman
123
7.1
Waldorf-Astooria: Hotel Windsor in New York, 1905. Adolf
Wölfli, Kunstmuseum, Bern
132
7.2
Le Pays des Meteores, 1902, Le Voyageur Français, Collection
de 1’art Brut, Lausanne
133
7.3
Louis Wain cat pictures, undated, untitled, Bethlem Royal
Hospital Archives and Museum
136

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Illustrations

7.4
Train (detail), Aloise Corbaz, Collection de 1’art Brut, Lausanne
(photo Claude Bornand)
139
8.1
The Plague, 1903, Max Klinger, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
152
10.1
Janek: the donkey has shed a large tear
208
10.2
The effect of medication: the painting of a patient being treated
for depression
210
10.3
The effect of medication: the same patient a week later. There
had been a change of medication to treat psychosis
210
10.4
The patient sat in her chair, surrounded by blue space, with the
natural world outside
211
11.1
‘I want to make a monster’
225
11.2
Crushed can
227
11.3
‘Galoshing’
232
11.4
Two horses
234

Editors

Katherine Killick is in private practice as a psychotherapist and clinical
supervisor in St Albans, working analytically with individuals. Originally trained
as an artist, and then as an art therapist, she is now completing her training as a
Jungian analyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology. She worked in adult
psychiatry in the National Health Service from 1979–94 and, as head of Art
Therapy at Hill End Hospital, she developed an art therapy service which
specialised in the treatment of borderline states and psychosis. The principles on
which this was based formed the subject of theoretical research which she
undertook for her Master’s Degree. She has been teaching on this subject, within
the art therapy profession and in related fields for many years and has published
a number of papers.

Dr Joy Schaverien is a Jungian analyst and art psychotherapist in private
practice in Leicestershire. Trained initially at the Slade as a painter, she has
worked as an art therapist in the National Health Service, in a therapeutic
community, adult psychiatry and out-patient psychotherapy. She was course
leader of the Master’s programme in art therapy at the University of Hertfordshire
and now lectures widely in Britain and abroad on the links between art and
psychotherapy. Among her many publications she is the author of The Revealing
Image: Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 1991)
and Desire and the Female Therapist: Engendered Gazes in Psychotherapy and
Art Therapy (Routledge, 1995). She is an Associate Professional Member of the
Society of Analytical Psychology in London.