Art and psychiatry in the 21st century: here's to more messy – and magical – entanglements

Tan, Kai Syng ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4491-7166 (2022) Art and psychiatry in the 21st century: here's to more messy – and magical – entanglements. BJPsych Bulletin, 46 (2). pp. 105-108. ISSN 2056-4694

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Abstract

Summary In a volatile world, during a time of multiple crises and amid a projected upsurge in mental illnesses as an aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, now is a critical time to consider how art and psychiatry can entangle with each other. Submissions like that of Lily Aston can create new spaces for conversation, reflection and constructive collisions. This can help disrupt and extend the state of psychiatry, management of psychiatric services, and education and training in mental healthcare, and advance how we understand other bodies and minds around us, and how knowledge can be created.