The Art and Nature of Health: A Study of Therapeutic Practice in Museums

Mangione, Gemma

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“…29,30 The creative methods of art and medical humanities are also needed to investigate how different forms of material engagement achieve their effects. [31][32][33] Some of the key issues include: (a) the role of arts and creative industries in psychotherapy; 33,34 (b) the development of evidence-based understandings of the therapeutic effects and qualities of different art materials and digital media; (c) the role of museums in mental health [35][36][37][38] as a space for creative interventions; and (d) the cross-cultural, 39 social and gender 40 dimensions of mental health.…”

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Understanding the effects of materiality on mental health

Malafouris

2019

BJPsych Bull

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SummaryConsensus is growing, in many areas of the humanities and social sciences, that aspects of the material world we live in have causal efficacy on our minds – the major dynamic being the plasticity of the brain linked to the affordances of our bodily engagements with things. The implications of that on how we approach and understand important mental health issues have not been adequately addressed. This paper proposes a material engagement approach to the study of the processes by which different forms of materiality achieve their effects. Focusing on the example of dementia, I propose that a collaboration between archaeology, anthropology, philosophy and psychiatry could help us to fill this gap in our knowledge, allowing us to understand the exact effects of everyday objects, personal possessions and forms of material engagement on people with dementia.

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Understanding the effects of materiality on mental health

Malafouris

2019

BJPsych Bull

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“…This therapeutic mood is in close relationship with art therapy theories initiated in the management of neuro-psychiatric disorders (mainly dementia) and chronic pain: in this context, museums can play a welcoming role, and an interface between creators, creations and patients (some of whom may be caregivers themselves) [4][5][6][7]. They also have the possibility of being exported outside the walls, for example to the hospital room in the form of reproductions of works of art brought by mediators (Louvre Museum) [8], or in the form of real anthropological and/or archaeological objects moved and presented by the curators themselves (musée du quai Branly -Jacques Chirac) [9].…”

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COVID-19, museums, and art therapy

Charlier

2021

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health

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“…What are the warrants of authority? What, for example, qualifies an art museum staff member to lead workshops for people with Alzheimer’s disease to “trigger memories using works of art as prompts” (Mangione 2018:283)? Writing of “bodily capital and health authority in the fitness industry,” Hutson (2013:63) described how the very physique of the trainer serves as a signifier of “corporeal credibility”: A fit-looking trainer not only comes across as authoritative but also converts exercise into “a form of health work.”…”

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From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority

Epstein

Timmermans

2021

J Health Soc Behav

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In his account of the medical profession’s ascent, Paul Starr drew a distinction between the social authority of physicians and the cultural authority of medicine—between doctors’ capacity to direct others’ behavior and the ability of medical institutions and discourses to shape meanings of illness, health, wellness, and treatment. Subsequently, scholars have reflected on the social-structural transformations challenging physicians’ social authority but neglected shifts in cultural authority. Focusing on the United States, we find a proliferation and diversification of cultural authority, reflecting a partial movement from the domain of medicine into new terrains of health. This shift is apparent in the resurgence of alternative healing, the advent of new forms of self-care and self-monitoring, the rise of health social movements, and the spread of health information online. We advance a research agenda to understand how the mechanisms and dynamics of cultural authority shape contests to speak in the name of health.

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The Art and Nature of Health: A Study of Therapeutic Practice in Museums

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Understanding the effects of materiality on mental health

Understanding the effects of materiality on mental health

COVID-19, museums, and art therapy

From Medicine to Health: The Proliferation and Diversification of Cultural Authority

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