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Stories of stories: Dialogues between psychology and art on pediatric hospital clowns’ visits narratives

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The “Stories of stories” project, using a humanistic approach, aims to (a) shed light on the impact of clowns’ artistic work, in the hospital, as a play with consequences, rather than shallow entertainment and (b) contribute to the refinement and improvement of the clown artists’ intervention quality, bringing hypotheses of reflection hardly within reach during their improvised performance. We are interested in the subjective experience of the artists. The present analysis was developed from the clown’s written reports after visiting the pedopsychiatry ward in a Portuguese public hospital. The visit was performed by a clown’s dyad, and the audience was young teenage girls with anorexia.

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Artistic clown doctors Humanistic psychology Art Mental health Autoethnography

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Peceguina, I., Alcântara, I., & Gonzalez, A.-J. (2024). Stories of Stories: Dialogues Between Psychology and Art on Pediatric Hospital Clowns’ Visits Narratives. Humanistic Psychologist, 52(3), 289–301. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000325

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