Round the clock: A therapist's and service user's perspective on the image outside art therapy

Abstract

This article is a collaborative piece of work between a clinician and an ex-service user with a diagnosis of personality disorder. It describes a transformative process in which a particular clinical model – the Henderson Democratic Therapeutic Community – played a key role. The art therapy service that this treatment model was able to foster is shown to provide a focal point for a different experience of the self. At the heart of the article is a particular image, made in an art therapy group but which moves through different contexts, retaining different kinds of power. Incorporated with this view of the image, underpinned by a broadly phenomenological framework, is an idea of process outside and beyond therapy.

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