Writer and Arts Therapist/Lecturer, France/UK
Susanna Crossman is an Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, 3:AM Magazine and the MAI Journal, among others. She also works internationally with hospitals and organisations as a clinical arts therapist and lecturer. She is the author of the novel L’Île sombre or ‘Dark Island’ (2021), and her work is included in Garden Among Fires: A Lockdown Anthology (2020), edited by Marina Benjamin.
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Subcultures
The utopian machine
For children like me, growing up in an utopian community, life was a bewildering chaos of freedom and indoctrination
Susanna Crossman
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
The play cure
In a clinical setting, playful activities are not distractions; they take patients deep into trauma – and out the other side
Susanna Crossman