Art therapists have increasingly become interested in exploring how neurobiological attachment processes might inform an understanding of the therapeutic mechanisms of change in art therapy. As a part of a long-term strategy to this end, Neil Springham and Val Huet, chief executive of the British Association of Art Therapists, designed a series of annual international conferences entitled ‘Attachment and the Arts’. The aim was to cross-reference what art therapists do in practice with developments from the neurobiological and evolutionary sciences. The London-based conferences invited leading figures from the relevant scientific fields (professors Peter Fonagy, Jeremy Holmes, Paul Gilbert and Iain McGilchrist), practising art therapists and users of art therapy services to explore art therapy through the attachment theory and neurobiological lens. The current paper was first presented by the authors to the fourth conference in October 2013.
All authors of the current paper worked as art therapists with adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A large part of this work was group based. Aware that those who used art therapy services did so in profound distress, seeking help for severe interpersonal and affect regulation difficulties, the authors were concerned to make sure they met those difficulties with an approach that was as effective as possible. Mentalisation-based treatment (MBT) attempted to increase effectiveness for people with borderline personality disorder by cross-referencing psychoanalytic insights with the neurological basis of the attachment system to formulate its approach (Allen, Fonagy, & Bateman, 2008). The results appeared encouraging: a long-term randomised control trial demonstrated lasting improvements in interpersonal functioning and distress tolerance (Bateman & Fonagy, 2008,2009). Mentalising was understood to develop interpersonally by drawing on natural processes. Fonagy, Bateman, and Bateman (2011) therefore proposed that mentalisation was a common mechanism of change likely to underpin all forms of psychological therapy. For any approach to be effective, one person must allow another to access and jointly label their subjective experience. This utilised the neurobiologically determined attachment processes routinely undertaken by caregivers and their infants. Therapy demanded high epistemic trust. It required a lowering of defensive guard and that appeared to have a neurobiological marker in the form of oxytocin (Zak, 2012).
As part of a PhD, Springham attempted to explore how mentalising may operate within the use of art-making in therapy. The word ‘softer’ in the title here refers to a verbal extract from a video clip of an art therapy experiment described in this paper which formed part of that exploration. It also seemed to resonate with the subject matter of the experiment: the effects of oxytocin in group-based art therapy. In order to describe this it would be useful to first clarify terms used by outlining the neurobiological issues the overall PhD study aimed to address.
Art therapists have increasingly become interested in exploring how neurobiological attachment processes might inform an understanding of the therapeutic mechanisms of change in art therapy. As a part of a long-term strategy to this end, Neil Springham and Val Huet, chief executive of the British Association of Art Therapists, designed a series of annual international conferences entitled ‘Attachment and the Arts’. The aim was to cross-reference what art therapists do in practice with developments from the neurobiological and evolutionary sciences. The London-based conferences invited leading figures from the relevant scientific fields (professors Peter Fonagy, Jeremy Holmes, Paul Gilbert and Iain McGilchrist), practising art therapists and users of art therapy services to explore art therapy through the attachment theory and neurobiological lens. The current paper was first presented by the authors to the fourth conference in October 2013.All authors of the current paper worked as art therapists with adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A large part of this work was group based. Aware that those who used art therapy services did so in profound distress, seeking help for severe interpersonal and affect regulation difficulties, the authors were concerned to make sure they met those difficulties with an approach that was as effective as possible. Mentalisation-based treatment (MBT) attempted to increase effectiveness for people with borderline personality disorder by cross-referencing psychoanalytic insights with the neurological basis of the attachment system to formulate its approach (Allen, Fonagy, & Bateman, 2008). The results appeared encouraging: a long-term randomised control trial demonstrated lasting improvements in interpersonal functioning and distress tolerance (Bateman & Fonagy, 2008,2009). Mentalising was understood to develop interpersonally by drawing on natural processes. Fonagy, Bateman, and Bateman (2011) therefore proposed that mentalisation was a common mechanism of change likely to underpin all forms of psychological therapy. For any approach to be effective, one person must allow another to access and jointly label their subjective experience. This utilised the neurobiologically determined attachment processes routinely undertaken by caregivers and their infants. Therapy demanded high epistemic trust. It required a lowering of defensive guard and that appeared to have a neurobiological marker in the form of oxytocin (Zak, 2012).As part of a PhD, Springham attempted to explore how mentalising may operate within the use of art-making in therapy. The word ‘softer’ in the title here refers to a verbal extract from a video clip of an art therapy experiment described in this paper which formed part of that exploration. It also seemed to resonate with the subject matter of the experiment: the effects of oxytocin in group-based art therapy. In order to describe this it would be useful to first clarify terms used by outlining the neurobiological issues the overall PhD study aimed to address.
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