This paper was presented at the 2025 IAAP Congress in Zurich and offers what I have learned about the intricacies and processes of healing over 45 years of clinical practice.<\/p>\n
As a profession, we have honed our knowledge of what may go wrong in a person\u2019s development and inner world, yet our model of healing itself needs attention. My doctoral research into clinical language and narrative of case histories shows an underlying world-view that tends to be pessimistic and antagonistic, making it too similar to the inner world of trauma that many of our patients bring.<\/p>\n
Arts-based research currently represents the most fluid approach to any enquiry and I take this to the Jungian clinic to suggest an outlook that is more conducive to healing, deep positivity. Based in quantum logic and complexity theory, this is profoundly hopeful whilst also able to embrace suffering and struggle. Here I employ science to evoke a confluence of head and heart and ultimately nourish our hearts with hope.<\/p>\n
With this, the tides shift and the time-honored grail question \u2018what ails you?\u2019 flows towards \u2018what heals you?\u2019 I will also explore how an arts-based\/heart-based approach might unfold in the clinical hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This paper was presented at the 2025 IAAP Congress in Zurich and offers what I have learned about the intricacies and processes of healing over 45 years of clinical practice. As a profession, we have honed our knowledge of what may go wrong in a person\u2019s development and inner world, yet our model of healing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":126914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[542],"mec_speaker":[3536],"class_list":["post-126913","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n