Friday Tour: Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta

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Friday Tour | Angus MacBeth

Angus MacBeth is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and a Clinical Psychologist who researched intergenerational mental health. On this tour, Angus used works by El Anatsui as metaphors for how key aspects of psychological therapy and psychiatry worked in practice while also illustrating how his research applied to global mental health in countries including Malawi.

Looking at When a Gate Closes, Angus talked about how the impact of trauma could be passed on through both biological and social mechanisms. Anatsui’s prints then offered an opportunity to consider Attachment Theory and the importance of representation in therapy—focusing on the stories we tell about mental health.

Closing with Scottish Book Mission Depot Keta, seeing this huge work as a complex tapestry, he explored how, in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, important insights into mental health arose from the accumulation of details, offering a window onto the value of learning how to change the way one thinks and behaves in the world.

Period	13 Sept 2024
Event type	Exhibition