Misogynart: Challenging Perceptions of Women, Violence, and Identity through Forensic Art Psychotherapy

Art psychotherapist working with violent women. She leads a team developing arts psychotherapies services across multiple prisons. Jessica is co-convenor of the Forensic Arts Therapies Advisory Group and a former council member of the British Association of Art Therapists and the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapists. She was the inaugural co-editor-in-chief of The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy and has published widely, including the co-edited books Intersectionality and the Arts Psychotherapies and The End of the Sentence: Psychotherapy with Female Offenders. Jessica lectures on postgraduate arts psychotherapy and forensic psychotherapy programmes. Her PhD considered the interdisciplinary dialogue between feminist criminology and art psychotherapy as a means of understanding gendered identities in prison. Jessica provides forensic clinical supervision and reflective practice to teams working with complex patients across prisons and secure hospitals throughout the UK. She is a SDIN-trained social dreaming host.