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Neil Springham explains how art school radicalism can shake up the health service.

The arts are increasingly being seriously cited by politicians as a public health issue, not least because of the economic downturn. The arts and health field is gaining in strength, and Arts Therapies’ inclusion in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for schizophrenia is a real breakthrough. Art therapy started in the 1940s at a time of massive social change. Radical art educationalists and artists in...

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