Prof Scott Thurston's Outputs (11)

Reflections on offering a therapeutic creative arts intervention with cult survivors : a collective biography (2020)
Journal Article

A new, evidence-based, multimodal, and
creative psychological therapy, Arts for the
Blues, was piloted with survivors of cultic
abuse in a workshop within a conference
setting. The five facilitators, who occupied
diverse roles and perspectives w... Read More about Reflections on offering a therapeutic creative arts intervention with cult survivors : a collective biography.

ITEM 5: Things Which Cross My Path Film 2 (2020)
Digital Artefact

A scratch performance delivered to the Leverhulme funded Aesthetic Pleasures Across Disciplines seminar on Friday 13 April 2018.

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ITEM 4: Things Which Cross My Path Film 1 (2020)
Digital Artefact

A scratch performance delivered to the Leverhulme funded Aesthetic Pleasures Across Disciplines seminar on Friday 13 April 2018.

More videos available at the weblink.

READ FIRST: Vital Signs (2020)
Data

Read first document describing sequence in which to engage with portfolio.

Arts for the Blues : the development of a new evidence-based creative group psychotherapy for depression (2020)
Journal Article

Introduction:
Depression affects many adults in the UK, often resulting in referral to primary care
mental health services (e.g. Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, IAPT).
CBT is the main modality for depression within IAPT, with other ap... Read More about Arts for the Blues : the development of a new evidence-based creative group psychotherapy for depression.

A poetics of subjective resistance (2020)
Thesis

This doctoral thesis is a work of poetics, which speculatively casts into the future of possible writing, to ask how contemporary innovative poetry can enact or contribute towards political resistance. More specifically, it asks how poetry that finds... Read More about A poetics of subjective resistance.

Flowing towards freedom with multimodal creative therapy : the healing power of therapeutic arts for ex cult-members (2020)
Journal Article

Creative arts can play an important role for cult survivors in surviving, transcending and healing from their past realities. Flow – an empowering state of mind-body integration and skilful, intuitive action while engaged in a challenging yet enjoyab... Read More about Flowing towards freedom with multimodal creative therapy : the healing power of therapeutic arts for ex cult-members.

ITEM 7: Wrestling Truth Poem (2020)
Data

The source text for the performance 'Wrestling Truth', co-composed by Scott Thurston and Sare Mairs Slee.

Phrases towards a Kinepoetics (2020)
Book

This sequence of twenty-five poems is the latest product of a sixteen-year process of integrating dance and movement into my poetic practice. The poems draw on the practice of Five Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Authentic Movement, Alexander Technique,... Read More about Phrases towards a Kinepoetics.

ITEM 1: 300 word statement (2020)
Data

300 word statement for REF purposes

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'.