Art Psychotherapy (Research)

We offer opportunities for students who want to pursue research in art psychotherapy.

• Goldsmiths has a world-class reputation for creativity and innovation, and a commitment to encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration.

• You meet your supervisors regularly for discussion and guidance, and present your work to the Art Psychotherapy research student group.

• You also attend the Goldsmiths Research Methods Training Course.

• Whatever your topic, you have your first supervisor in Art Psychotherapy and may have your second in another department – Art, Educational Studies, Psychology, or Sociology, for example.

• For MPhil and PhD study, you usually register for research by written thesis (although there are also possibilities for research based on a written element and studio practice).

Supervision is currently available in the following areas:

• Art therapists and their art

• Cross-cultural issues

• Evidence-based practices

• Group work

• History and development of the professions in the UK and internationally

• Occupational choice, career development and role change of arts therapists and arts therapy trainees

• Clinical work with various client populations

Previous research topics include:

• Key issues in art psychotherapy with the blind

• The creative experience inside and outside an art psychotherapy group

• The image as an assessment tool with children who have an autistic spectrum disorder

• Thinking about art with adults who have learning disabilities

• Art therapists’ working environments