A Psychotherapist Brings Art-Making to Patients in Zimbabwe

Abstract

For ten years I have been making annual month-long visits to a hospital in Zimbabwe, Africa. I am a visual artist and child and family psychotherapist who uses art in my healing practice. When I visit the hospital, I have largely been responding to situations that present themselves. Some days I simply see myself as being a kind of distraction to the widespread pain and suffering that exists on these wards.