Neil Springham

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated a mentalization-based treatment program for borderline personality disorder (BPD), which had an art therapy group as one of its three components, and found that it had positive results with increases in distress tolerance, lowered service use and at least two participants no longer meeting criteria for the BPD diagnosis.

TL;DR: The authors explored how mental health professionals with mental health service users experience "constructing" their identity through discourse analysis, finding that participants constructed their identity variously, including as separate “professional” and “patient” identities, switching between these in relation to different contexts, suggesting "unintegrated" identities.

TL;DR: In this article, an art gallery-based group facilitated modification of the dominant narrative of psychosis in the participants' personal narratives, promoted recovery, wellbeing, and a subjective sense of social inclusion.

TL;DR: Biopsychosocial theory is strengthening psychotherapy by focusing on interactions that engage the attachment system as discussed by the authors, and art therapy has the potential to align coherently with current theory provided i...