Joy Schaverien archive

This collection is uncatalogued. The following is an interim description which may be altered when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Joy Schaverien's archive relating to her education and career, both as an art therapist from 1970s to the early 1990s, and as a Jungian analyst from the 1990s onwards. The collection includes:

- Patient artworks created during the course of therapy with Joy Schaverien and in hospital settings

- Publications written or contributed to by Joy Schaverien on on psychoanalysis, erotic transference and gender in psychotherapy, the psychological effects of boarding school attendance, and art therapy

- Lectures and conference materials, often based around Schaverien's published writings

- Teaching, training and workshop papers relating to Schaverien's national and international teaching on art therapy and psychotherapy

- Correspondence and papers relating to Schaverien's professional groups and associations

c.1970s-2021

17 boxes, 15 folders

Donated by Joy Schaverien in August 2021.

Professor Joy Schaverien originally trained as a painter at Brighton College of Art and UCL Slade School of Fine Art. From the 1970s to the early 1990s she worked as an art psychotherapist in the NHS and lectured in art therapy at St Albans College. Schaverien was also a founding member of the Sheffield University art therapy course team. In 1996 Schaverien completed training as a Jungian Analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London and subsequently moved into private practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and art psychotherapist. Schaverien also supervises experienced practitioners and trainees, and lectures at home and internationally on various topics. She has held posts in universities, including Course leader of the Master’s programme in Art Psychotherapy at the University of Hertfordshire.

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