Reflections on offering a therapeutic creative arts intervention with cult survivors : a collective biography

Parsons, AS ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3540-5660, Kefalogianni, M, Dubrow-Marshall, LJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-6599, Turner, R, Ingleton, HD, Omylinska-Thurston, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8329-171X, Thurston, SD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5326-593X and Karkou, V 2020, 'Reflections on offering a therapeutic creative arts intervention with cult survivors : a collective biography' , International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM), 1 (1) , pp. 47-61.

Preview	PDF - Published Version Download (266kB) | Preview
	PDF - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Download (265kB) | Request a copy

Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Schools:	Schools > School of Health and Society
Journal or Publication Title:	International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM)
Publisher:	International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)
Related URLs:	Publication
Depositing User:	J Omylinska-Thurston
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2021 08:31
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2022 16:42
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/58989

Actions (login required)

Edit record (repository staff only)