Interests
• Arts in health
• Communities
• Spirituality and wellbeing (human-related, non-religious)
Research: developing reading list and key findings
• Arts In Health, Daisy Fancourt
– History of arts and health sectors, ‘arts in health’ movement
– Best practice: how to practically, ethically and legally conceive, plan and deliver an arts in health intervention/research project
– Randomized Control Trials (RCT)
– Research findings: how the arts support different areas of health
• Your Brain On Art, Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
– How different arts activity/engagement practically affect the brain (science, anatomy, neuroplasticity)
– The arts and community development
– Arts and wellbeing case studies
• The Body Keeps The Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk
– Trauma treatment
– Arts for health case studies / projects successfully helping people recover from depression, anxiety and PTSD (e.g mask making for veterans offering an alternative step in recovery to more traditional forms of cognitive/talking therapies where they’ve not worked)
• What Happened To You?, Bruce D. Perry M.D Ph. D, Oprah Winfrey
– ACE (adverse childhood experiences)
• The Power Of Now and A New Earth, Eckharte Tolle (revisiting)
– The law of attraction
– Subconscious mind
– Ego v.s true self
– ‘Pain bodies’ (accumulated, historic, emotional pain)
– Being present, mindfulness and self-awareness
– Collective impacts of the above on a societal level
• The Doctor And The Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, Dr. Viktor Frankl (reading)
– The spiritual dimension of Psychotherapy and our human need for values, meaning and purpose
Reference List:
Fancourt, D. (2017) Arts in health: designing and researching interventions. Oxford, England, New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
Frankl, V. (2004) The Doctor and The Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy. London: Souvenir Press, Profile Books Ltd.
Magsamen, S. and Ross, I. (2023) Your brain on art: how the arts transform us. New York: Random House.
Tolle, E. (2005) A New Earth: Create A Better Life. London: Penguin Random House UK.
Tolle, E. (2001) The power of now: a guide to spiritual enlightenment. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Van der Kolk, B.A. (2015) The body keeps the score: mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma /. London, England : Penguin Books.
Winfrey, O. and Perry, B.D. (2022) What happened to you?: conversations on trauma, resilience and healing. London: Bluebird.