Prof Scott Thurston's Outputs (7)

Arts for the blues: a new creative psychological therapy for depression (2024)
Book Chapter

Routinely prescribed psychological therapies for depression are not always effective. Arts therapies, particularly Dance Movement Psychotherapy, may offer additional therapeutic mechanisms for depression. Therefore, client-reported helpful factors fr... Read More about Arts for the blues: a new creative psychological therapy for depression.

Digitising creative psychological therapy : Arts for the Blues (A4B) (2021)
Book Chapter

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a need to adapt and develop psychological interventions that address the mental health of those in need. As a result, Arts for the Blues (A4B), an evidence-based creative group psychotherapy model,... Read More about Digitising creative psychological therapy : Arts for the Blues (A4B).

Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut' (2020)
Book Chapter

In 1995, Allen Fisher published a poem entitled ‘Mummers’ Strut’ in an issue of the magazine West Coast Line, accompanied by a statement of poetics. This essay offers a close reading of the poem by investigating its multiple sources alongside Fisher... Read More about Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut'.

“For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital (2019)
Book Chapter

A detailed account of early editorial pieces by Robert Sheppard (b. 1955) - a major figure in Linguistically Innovative Poetry - in his magazine Pages - laying the theoretical groundwork for a new movement in poetry. The piece also consider Sheppard'... Read More about “For which we haven’t yet a satisfactory name” : the birth of Linguistically Innovative Poetry and the practice of a collective poetics in Robert Sheppard’s Pages and Floating Capital.

The pleasures of reification : Kelvin Corcoran's lyric lyric (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the use of the term 'reification' in Kelvin Corcoran's poetry and reflects on its relevance for understanding a poetics driven by a fascination for the history and material properties of writing.

Maggie O'Sullivan : states of transformation (2011)
Book Chapter

Maggie O’Sullivan’s work has often been linked to the concept of shamanism, through her works’ own declared interest in it as well as by commentators. Nevertheless the application of this concept constructs a view of the work as somewhat ‘othered’ in... Read More about Maggie O'Sullivan : states of transformation.

Allen Fisher: reading 'Mummers' Strut' (2005)
Book Chapter