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Abstract
Portrait therapy reverses the traditional roles in art therapy, utilising Edith Kramer's concept of the art therapist's 'third hand' to collaboratively design and paint their clients' portraits. It addresses 'disrupted' self-identity, which is common in serious illness and characterised by statements like 'I don't know who I am anymore' and 'I'm not the person I used to be'.
This book explores the theory and practice of portrait therapy, including Kenneth Wright's theory of 'mirroring and attunement'. Case studies, accompanied by colour portraits, collages and prose-poems, provide insight into the intervention and the author highlights the potential for portrait therapy to be used with other client groups in the future.
Dr Susan Carr is an art therapist, artist, writer and researcher, with 12 years' experience working in palliative care. She is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Art Therapy and is based in Swindon, UK.
This intriguing book turns the art therapy lens in the reverse direction - the art therapist painting portraits co-created with seriously ill clients, to help revalidate their self-identities. It is a fascinating book, thoroughly researched and well written.
Marian Liebmann, art therapist
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait Therapy: Resolving Self-Identity Disruption in Clients with Life-Threatening and Chronic Illnesses by Susan M. D. Carr | 3 | ||
| Part I: Focusing the Gaze | 13 | ||
| 1. Setting the Scene: Introducing Portraiture as a ‘Third Hand’ Intervention | 15 | ||
| 2. Priming the Canvas: A Phenomenological Approach to Depicting Subjectivity | 34 | ||
| 3. Selecting the Medium: Portraiture as a Therapeutic Tool | 55 | ||
| Part II: Collaborative Case-Studies | 75 | ||
| 4. Portrait Therapy as a Collaborative Intervention: Paint Me This Way! | 77 | ||
| 5. Increasing the Patients’ Creative Capacity to Adapt to Illness | 91 | ||
| 6. Mirroring and Attunement Through Portraiture: Intersubjective and Symbolic Ways of Knowing, Being and Relating | 127 | ||
| 7. Making Special, Making Meaning: Homelike-being-in-the-world and Ontological Security | 175 | ||
| Part III: Portrait Therapy Protocol and Evaluation Methods | 215 | ||
| 8. A Therapist’s Manual: The Three Phases of Portrait Therapy | 217 | ||
| 9. Making Connections: Evaluating Portrait Therapy | 231 | ||
| 10. Afterword: Drawing Conclusions | 244 | ||
| Appendix 1: Portrait Reference Album | 260 | ||
| Appendix 2: Semi-structured End of Project Interview Questions | 262 | ||
| References | 265 | ||
| Author biography | 283 | ||
| Subject Index | 284 | ||
| Author Index | 299 | ||
| Figures | 8 | ||
| Figure 1.1 Out of This World by John D. Edwards © 1999 \n(see also Coloured Plate vi). | 18 | ||
| Figure 1.2 Eileen Aged 10 Years, 2007. | 28 | ||
| Figure 1.3 Eileen by Susan Carr, 2007. | 29 | ||
| Figure 1.4 Hugh. | 31 | ||
| Figure 2.1 Last Portrait of Mother by Daphne Todd © 2009 \n(see also Coloured Plate vii). | 39 | ||
| Figure 2.2 Lucy’s Kingdom by Juliet Chenery-Robson © 2010. | 40 | ||
| Figure 2.3 Portrait of Philip by Juliet Chenery-Robson © 2016. | 41 | ||
| Figure 2.4 Jo Spence, from Narratives of Disease (Included) \nby Jo Spence and Tim Sheard © 1990. | 42 | ||
| Figure 3.1 Robin and Mardi by Mark Gilbert © 2007 \n(Portraits of Care Project) (see also Coloured Plate viii). | 63 | ||
| Figure 3.2 Barry C by Mark Gilbert © 1999 (Saving Faces Project). | 65 | ||
| Figure 3.3 Evelyn by Heath Rosselli © 1997 (see also Coloured Plate ix). | 67 | ||
| Figure 3.4 Steve by Antonia Rolls © 2007 (see also Coloured Plate x). | 68 | ||
| Figure 3.5 Julia by Antonia Rolls © 2013. | 68 | ||
| Figure 3.6 Dead Man Posing, Portrait of Philip Ledbury \nby David Fisher © 2009 (see also Coloured Plate xi). | 69 | ||
| Figure 5.1 The Window by Susan Carr (co-designed by Hilary), 2011. | 93 | ||
| Figure 5.2 The Heart of the Home by Susan Carr (co-designed by Hilary), 2011. | 93 | ||
| Figure 5.3 A Proper Grandma by Susan Carr, 2010. | 95 | ||
| Figure 5.4 Held by an Angel by Susan Carr (co-designed by Hilary), 2011 \n(see also Coloured Plate i). | 97 | ||
| Figure 5.5 Broken Lungs by Susan Carr (co-designed by Paul), 2013 \n(see also Coloured Plate ii). | 100 | ||
| Figure 5.6 Pin Hole Camera by Susan Carr (co-designed by Susan), 2012. | 103 | ||
| Figure 5.7 Can’t Breathe collage by Susan Carr, 2011. | 107 | ||
| Figure 5.8 Mark, Charlie & Rusty by Susan Carr (co-designed by Peter), 2011. | 107 | ||
| Figure 5.9 RIP Mark & Rusty collage by Susan Carr, 2011 \n(co-designed by Peter), 2011. | 108 | ||
| Figure 5.10 There’s Something About Mark, RIP by Susan Carr \n(co-designed by Peter), 2011. | 109 | ||
| Figure 5.11 Peter & Mark in Kenya by Susan Carr \n(co-designed by Peter), 2011. | 110 | ||
| Figure 5.12 At the Races by Susan Carr (co-designed by Peter), 2011. | 111 | ||
| Figure 5.13 My Mother Walked Out and Left Me collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 113 | ||
| Figure 5.14 Seven Holes in My Heart collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 113 | ||
| Figure 5.15 Unwelcome Contradictions of Death in Birth by Susan Carr, 1999. | 114 | ||
| Figure 5.16 My Baby/My Self by Susan Carr and Norma, 2012. | 116 | ||
| Figure 5.17 Susan’s post-diagnosis button task, 2012. | 117 | ||
| Figure 5.18 Back in That Box collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 118 | ||
| Figure 5.19 The Swan Island Book by Susan Carr \n(co-designed by patient Susan), 2012. | 121 | ||
| Figure 5.20 Paint Me Like a Picasso by Susan Carr (co-designed by Rose), 2011. | 122 | ||
| Figure 5.21 I’ll Give It A Damn Good Try, collage by Susan Carr, 2010. | 124 | ||
| Figure 6.1 Hard to Leave the House collage by Susan Carr, 2013. | 132 | ||
| Figure 6.2 At Home by Susan Carr, 2013. | 134 | ||
| Figure 6.3 The Two Normas by Susan Carr (co-designed by Norma/North Bear) 2012 (after The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo, 1939). | 138 | ||
| Figure 6.4 Montage of Rose’s three portraits: The Poppy Field, Paint Me Like a Picasso and Bohemian Rhapsody by Susan Carr (co-designed by Rose), 2011. | 141 | ||
| Figure 6.5 All I Might Be Able To Do, collage by Susan Carr, 2010. | 142 | ||
| Figure 6.6 I Climbed Mount Kilimanjaro by Susan Carr, 2011. | 143 | ||
| Figure 6.7 Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro by Susan Carr (co-designed by Peter), 2011. | 143 | ||
| Figure 6.8 Flying Ace by Susan Carr, 2011 (co-designed by Bill), 2011 \n(see also Coloured Plate iii). | 145 | ||
| Figure 6.9 All My Plates Came Crashing Down, collage by Susan Carr, 2010. | 147 | ||
| Figure 6.10 Detail of the canary in the cage, from Paint Me Like a Picasso \nby Susan Carr (co-designed by Rose), 2011. | 148 | ||
| Figure 6.11 Idealised, collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 149 | ||
| Figure 6.12 I Lived in Fear of Him, collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 150 | ||
| Figure 6.13 Over Protected, collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 150 | ||
| Figure 6.14 Catch 22 by Susan Carr (co-designed by Susan), 2012. | 151 | ||
| Figure 6.15 The Cupboard of Imagination and Dreams by Susan Carr \n(co-designed by Susan), 2012. | 153 | ||
| Figure 6.16 Being Pandora (after Rossetti, 1828–1882) by Susan Carr \n(co-designed by patient Susan), 2012. | 155 | ||
| Figure 6.17 Saying Goodbye to the Sea by Susan Carr \n(co-designed by Susan), 2012. | 169 | ||
| Figure 6.18 Lost by Susan Carr (co-designed by Norma), 2012. | 171 | ||
| Figure 6.19 Fish Out of Water by Susan Carr (co-designed by Norma), 2012 \n(see also Coloured Plate iv). | 172 | ||
| Figure 7.1 I Don’t Want to Just Disappear, collage by Susan Carr, 2010. | 178 | ||
| Figure 7.2 Montage of Hilary’s three portraits: The Window, The Heart of the Home, and Held by an Angel by Susan Carr (co-designed by Hilary), 2011. | 179 | ||
| Figure 7.3 ‘Baby’ detail from My Baby/My Self \nby Susan Carr and Norma, 2012. | 180 | ||
| Figure 7.4 North Bear by Susan Carr (co-designed by Norma), 2012. | 183 | ||
| Figure 7.5 Bill’s Gunga Din by Susan Carr, 2012. | 187 | ||
| Figure 7.6 Sacrifice by Susan Carr, 2012. | 188 | ||
| Figure 7.7 Montage of Bill’s first three portraits: The Flying Ace, Pegasus Bridge and The Veteran by Susan Carr (co-designed by Bill), 2011. | 189 | ||
| Figure 7.8 Mentioned in Despatches, collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 190 | ||
| Figure 7.9 Mentioned in Despatches by Susan Carr (co-designed by Bill), 2011. | 190 | ||
| Figure 7.10 Bohemian Rhapsody by Susan Carr (co-designed by Rose), 2011. | 192 | ||
| Figure 7.11 English Gothic by Susan Carr (co-designed by Paul), 2013. | 194 | ||
| Figure 7.12 The Paper Dress by Susan Carr (co-designed by Susan), 2012. | 196 | ||
| Figure 7.13 Montage of Susan’s four portraits: Little Susan, Saying Goodbye \nto the Sea, Being Pandora and The Library by Susan Carr \n(co-designed by PR Susan), 2012. | 198 | ||
| Figure 7.14 The Rainbow Snake by Susan Carr, 2012. | 200 | ||
| Figure 7.15 The Poppy Field by Susan Carr (co-designed by Rose), 2011. | 203 | ||
| Figure 7.16 Trapped, collage by Susan Carr, 2012. | 208 | ||
| Figure 7.17 Virtual Paul by Susan Carr (co-designed by Paul), 2013. | 209 | ||
| Figure 10.1 RIP Peter. | 259 | ||
| Coloured Plates | 11 | ||
| Coloured Plate i: Held by an Angel by Susan Carr (co-designed by Hilary), 2011. | 160 | ||
| Coloured Plate ii: Broken Lungs by Susan Carr (co-designed by Paul), 2013. | 162 | ||
| Coloured Plate iii: Flying Ace by Susan Carr (co-designed by Bill), 2011. | 162 | ||
| Coloured Plate iv: Fish Out of Water by Susan Carr (co-designed by Norma), 2012. | 164 | ||
| Coloured Plate v: The Poppy Field by Susan Carr (co-designed by Rose), 2011. | 164 | ||
| Coloured Plate vi: Out of This World by John D. Edwards © 1999. | 166 | ||
| Coloured Plate vii: Last Portrait of Mother by Daphne Todd © 2009. | 166 | ||
| Coloured Plate viii: Robin and Mardi by Mark Gilbert © 2007 (Portraits of Care Project). | 166 | ||
| Coloured Plate ix: Evelyn by Heath Rosselli © 1997. | 166 | ||
| Coloured Plate x: Steve by Antonia Rolls © 2007. | 168 | ||
| Coloured Plate xi: Dead Man Posing, Portrait of Philip Ledbury by David Fisher © 2009. | 168 | ||
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