Publications - Books
2018
Portrait Therapy by Susan Carr
I wrote Portrait Therapy after I had completed my PhD, it tells the fascinating stories the seven hospice patients who engaged with me in a collaborative process to design self-portraits that revisioned their sence of self-identity. Their stories speak of courage, humility, humour, joy and recovery of self.
2021
Claywork and Body Image by Susan Carr & Trisha Crocker
Clay Work and Body Image in Art Therapy provides an important addition to resources available in the field of clay work and art therapy, highlighting the unique sensory aspects of the medium and its ability to provide a therapeutic resource for women who experience body image issues.
2021
Chapter: Complicated Gender & Problematised bodies, in, Arts Therapies and Gender Issues (edited by Susan Hogan)
Arts Therapies and Gender Issues offers international perspectives on gender in arts therapies research and demonstrates understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Analysing current innovations and approaches in the arts therapies, it discusses issues of cultural identity, which intersect with sex, gender norms, stereotypes and sexual identity.
2021
The empathic mirror: Healing Grief and Loss through Portrait Therapy at End of Life,in, The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care. (Edited by M. Wood, R. Jacobson & H. Cridford.
The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care offers a multicultural and international perspective on how art therapy can be of help to individuals, groups, families, communities, and nations facing death and dying as well as grief and loss.
Peer reviewed journal articles
By Dr Susan Carr
Carr, Susan, M. D. & Pryor, Rachel. (2026) ' Books of Rage and Growth': A Single Longitudinal Case Study of Inner-Child Art Journaling, A Service User's Perspective. Under Review for International Journal of Art Therapy.
Carr, Susan, M. D. & Hancock, Susan. (2017) Healing the inner child through portrait therapy: Illness, identity and childhood trauma. International Journal of Art Therapy, Vol. 22(1), p8-21.
Carr, Susan. M. D. (2017) Empathic portrayal or intrusive spectacle? Portrait therapy in the museum and art gallery. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, December 2017
Carr, Susan, M. D. (2015) Enabling self-identity revisioning through portraiture, for people living with life threatening and chronic illnesses: paint me this way! Loughborough University PhD Thesis.
Carr, Susan, M. D. (2014) Revisioning Self-Identity: The role of portraits, neuroscience and the art therapist’s ‘third hand’. The International Journal of Art Therapy, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 54-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2014.906476
Carr, Susan. M. D. (2011) Reflecting identities: using portraiture with people suffering from life threatening illnesses (Abstract). British Medical Journal: Support Palliative Care 2011; 1: pp. 236.http://spcare.bmj.com/content/1/2/236.1.abstract
Editorials: International Journal of Art Therapy
by Dr Susan Carr & Dr Alex McDonald
Carr, Susan, M. D. & E. Ashby (2020) Stigma and Shame in Mental Illness: Avoiding Collusion in Art Therapy. Journal: International Journal of Art Therapy, Vol. 25(1), pp.1-4.
Carr, Susan, M. D. & McDonald, A. (2019) The power of the art: the importance of images in art therapy literature. Journal: International Journal of Art Therapy , Vol. 24(4), pp.149 - 150.
Carr, Susan, M. D. & McDonald, A. ((2019) The state-of-the-art: Building a Positive Future for Art Therapy through Systematic Research. Journal: International Journal of Art Therapy , Vol. 24(2), pp.53 - 55.
Carr, Susan, M. D. & McDonald, A. (2018) Editorial. Journal: International Journal of Art Therapy , Vol. 23(4), pp.143 - 145.
Carr, Susan, M. D. & McDonald, A. (2018) Editorial. Journal: International Journal of Art Therapy. Vol. 23(2)2, pp. i – i.