List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Transformative Therapeutics as Healing for the Individual 1. Making Sense of the Aesthetic Experience 2. Making Sense Inside the Clinic: Episodes of the Arts Therapies 3. Contesting the Clinic: Art, Therapy and the Schizophrenic 4. Making Sense Outside the Clinic Part II: Transformative Therapeutics as a Critical Method of Thinking 5. Making Sense of Territory: Art Practice and Material Thinking 6. Making Political Sense: Vera Frenkel’s String Games 7. Making Sense at the Limit 8. Making Sense with the Pharma Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
A creative, philosophical and practical new theory of aesthetics which explores how art helps us to make sense of the world.
Lorna Collins is an artist, critic and arts educator. She completed her PhD in French Philosophy as a Foundation Scholar at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art, published by Bloomsbury. Her provocative practice as an artist (in paint, film, installation and performance) drives the motor of all her philosophical enquiries.
Lorna Collins’ Making Sense: Art Practice and Transformative
Therapeutics is a timely contribution to the theory and practice of
psychotherapy. As conditions of work and life become increasingly
precarious, various forms of mental distress and dis-ease such as
depression are on the rise. At the same time, mental health
services are perpetually under threat of budget cuts, and are
typically under-funded in practically all nations in the world. By
thinking through the transformative and potential of individual
expression, Collins suggests that art, broadly conceived, can help
us to make sense of the world, and thereby ameliorate or alleviate
situations of suffering, without necessarily depending on (limited
and costly) access to professional psychotherapy.
*Leon Tan, art historian, cultural theorist and psychotherapist*
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