A recent article (in press) in The Arts in Psychotherapy discusses new research on drawing indicators. A small sample of drawings from in patients (n=34), out patients (n=26) and comparison group (n=29) were contrasted to establish the validity of certain formal drawing characteristics as indicators of psychotic features. Patients in the study were all diagnosed with illnesses that involved psychotic episodes [...]
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Going mad in 700+ drawings
The Guardian is consistent in presenting interesting people in the arts. Bobby Baker an artist, and performer also holds a Senior Research Fellowship in Drama, at Queen Mary, University of London. But what is of particular interest to the readers here is the fact that she has also spent time in day hospitals, psychiatric wards and [...]
Art as ticket out of autistic isolation
I was recently made aware of this extraordinary visual artist by the name of Stephen Wiltshire who was first discovered when he was 11 in the UK. Stephen was diagnosed with autism and was mute until the age of four. He began expressing himself not through words but through drawings; and drawing is something he does [...]
