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Sarah Hall

Postgraduate Research Student
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
 Sarah Hall

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  • Addiction, Recovery, Drug-Dreams research, Structural Dream Analysis, Dreams, Dreaming, Rehabs, Art Therapy, Jungian Analysis, Therapeutic Communities

Biography

Sarah Hall is a Psychoanalytic Art Psychotherapist (UKCP, HCPC), Jungian Analyst (BPC, IAAP) in Private Practice in Cornwall, and Chair of Training at the Association of Jungian Analysts. She also works part time as clinical lead in dual diagnosis at Chy rehab in Truro, and has taught on the MA Art Psychotherapy training at IATE, the Society of Social and Critical Psychoanalysis in Cornwall, and the Society for Analytical Psychology, London. As a professional artist, and former academic lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, she has exhibited in the UK and internationally, and been involved in researching the collective as well as personal impact of creativity by working in prisons, long stay hospitals and institutions. Her current Professional Doctorate research involves a Jungian interpretation of drug dreams in patients in recovery from addiction and the implications for clinical practice. She is also the founder of Jung by the Sea, a multi-disciplinary not for profit initiative which celebrates Jung's work by offering conferences, seminars and workshops exploring Jungian ideas in a rural setting in Cornwall. www.jungbythesea.co.uk Publications include: 2023 'Becoming a researcher: psychotherapists experience of starting a professional doctorate'. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Sue Kegerreis, Deborah L. S. Wright, Sarah Hall, Medina Horne, Jane Langley, James Norris, Elaine Quaile & Rinat Shemesh 2023 Psychodynamic Practice Book Review Essay (3,500 words). Using Image and Narrative in Therapy for Trauma, Addiction and Recovery, James, D West. Published by Taylor and Francis Online. 2022 Developing an Integrative Art Psychotherapy Group Treatment Model to support people with a dual diagnosis in residential rehab: RAFT (Recovery and Aftercare from Formative Trauma)'. Integrative Arts Psychotherapy: using an integrative theoretical frame and all of the arts in psychotherapy. Published by Routledge. Research and Conference Activities include: Dreamcovery: A Jungian interpretation of Drug-Dreams, Clinical Paper delivered as part of the German Analytical Psychology Annual 3 day Conference, Stuttgart (8th 11th March 2023). Jung by the Sea International Conference (2nd -4th June, Polhawn Fort, Cornwall 2023) www.jungbythesea.co.uk To mark the Centenary of Jungs seminars in Cornwall, this international conference I devised and delivered featured speakers from across the world including: Professor Sonu Shamdasani (UCL), Liz Greene, Tom Cheetham (USA), Becca Tarnas (USA), Professor Christian Roesler, (Germany), and Sharon Blackie. The keynote sessions were consolidated by a range of participatory workshops including sand mandala art by Sarah Hall, Dreaming workshop by Dale Mathers, and a Social Dreaming Matrix by Fiona Palmer Barnes & Carola Mathers. The conference was attended in person by 120 delegates from around the world, with 300 video on demand sales for remote viewing.

Qualifications

  • Jungian Analyst Association of Jungian Analysts, London (2019)

  • MA Art Psychotherapy The Institute for Art and Therapy in Education, London (2015)

Research and professional activities

Thesis

'Dreamcovery: Does a Jungian analysis of the drug-dreams of patients, in both long and short-term recovery from addiction, have clinical relevance beyond predicting relapse, assessing motivation and indicating drug-craving, supporting Jungs thesis of the dream as a total picture of the current situation of the psyche?

The phenomena of drug-dreams, frequently experienced by patients in recovery from addiction, are defined as dreams where drugs or addictive substances are used, including the attempted use, seeking, handling, viewing, or acquiring of them . Despite considerable research into drug-dreams, calls for further investigations have been made by researchers and clinicians, on the basis of an imbalance in the types/classifications of drug-dreams studied, and a lack of research investigating drug-dreams

Supervisor: Dr David Henderson

Research interests

Drug-Dreams, Addiction, Recovery, Jungian Art Therapy

Can a Jungian analysis of the drug-dreams of patients, in both long and short-term recovery from addiction, have clinical relevance beyond predicting relapse, assessing motivation and indicating drug-craving, supporting Jung’s thesis of ‘the dream as a total picture of the current situation of the psyche’?

Contact

sh21890@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus