Reclaiming Our Heritage: The Impact of Art on Mental Health

SMHAF Podcast

This is Reclaiming Our Heritage, a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000s. The full interviews by these contributors and others are available in the Reclaiming Our Heritage archive on the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival website. Each episode will explore themes that have come out of these spoken testimonies, and these will be further discussed by a professional guest. In this episode, Halina Rifai speaks to guest Andrea Spink, an art psychotherapist, about the impact of art on mental health with the help of testimonies from the Reclaiming Our Heritage archive. The Reclaiming our Heritage project is funded by a number of donors including an “Our Heritage” grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.