Full Description
Drawing has an established history within medicine for learning, recording, investigating and discovery. Bringing together diverse drawing approaches in the form of research and practical projects, this book demonstrates how drawing has extended beyond the realm of medicine with relevance and value for a wide spectrum of health and wellbeing settings.
Drawing has significant benefits for health, yet it is only recently that drawing for health and wellbeing has become a focus for formal research investigation and development. Chapters critically examine how drawing helps us convey and understand complex illness experiences, supporting a deeper, more holistic form of communication between patient and professional. The authors also explore drawing as a popular mindful and meditative activity. Underlying all the chapters is the principle that manual drawing, such as sketching, diagrams, cartoons and many other forms of mark-making, has important qualities in enabling people to learn, investigate, explain, and express as well as alleviate suffering.
With renewed global interest in improving our health, this timely volume brings together prominent research in the field and highlights an array of drawing approaches to promote wellbeing.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction, Philippa Lyon
2. Practical Ethics Guidance on Using Drawing for Sensitive Topics, Curie
Scott
3. To be Met as a Person Through Drawing: Relational Drawing and Mental Health, Joanna Stevens, Jane Fox and Philippa Lyon
4. Collaborative Drawing as a Way to Help with Issues that Impact the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Autistic Children and Young People who Experience Demand Avoidance, Caehryn Tinker
5. Fabrika: Drawing Across Cultures, Edina Husanovic
6. Drawing Together: Graphic Medicine and COVID Lockdowns, MK Czerwiec, Susan Squier, Ebru Ustundag, Shelley Wall and Dana Walrath
7. Touch and Drawing to Enhance Observation and Spatial Awareness in Medical Education and Practice: the Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing Method, Leonard Shapiro
8. Using Participant-Generated Drawings to Aid Patient and Health Professional Insights about Living with Asthma, Melissa Mei Yin Cheung, Bandana Saini and Lorraine Smith
9. Marking Space: A Case Study Examining Drawing Activities Used to Map the World of Mary, Jenny Wright
10. Drawing Life: Drawing by People Living with Dementia, Judy Parkinson
11. Stitch-Drawing as Autoethnographic Practice for Health and Wellbeing: A Personal Case Study, Vanessa Marr
12. Mind Like Water: Drawing the Still Point, Duncan Bullen
Conclusion, Philippa Lyon
Index
