Reflections on Offering a Therapeutic Creative Arts Intervention With Cult Survivors: A Collective Biography
A new, evidence-based, multimodal, and creative psychological therapy, Arts for the Blues, was piloted with survivors of cultic abuse in a workshop within a conference setting. The five facilitators, who occupied diverse roles and perspectives within the workshop and research project, reflected on t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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ICSA
2020
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International journal of coercion, abuse and manipulation IJCS
Year: 2020, Volume: 1, Pages: 47-60 |
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| Summary: | A new, evidence-based, multimodal, and creative psychological therapy, Arts for the Blues, was piloted with survivors of cultic abuse in a workshop within a conference setting. The five facilitators, who occupied diverse roles and perspectives within the workshop and research project, reflected on their experiences of introducing this novel intervention to the cult-survivor population. In this underreported territory of using structured, arts-based, psychological therapy with those who have survived cultic abuse, the authors used a process of collective biography to compile a firstperson, combined narrative based on those reflections. This approach allows for a visceral insight into the dynamics and obstacles encountered, and the countertransference responses of the facilitators. This reflexive process shined a light into aspects of research and practice that were not all visible to the individual researchers previously, with implications for research ethics, psychological therapy, and creative arts within the cult-survivor field. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of coercion, abuse and manipulation IJCS
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.54208/ooo1/1003 |