Alice Myles

Alice Myles is a Lecturer in Arts Psychotherapy at Brunel University London, serving as module lead for the MA Art Psychotherapy program. She practices art psychotherapy in forensic and adult mental healthcare settings.

Education:

• Interdisciplinary academic background including Psychology
• MSc Advanced Multivariate Statistics
• Philosophy
• Imaging research in the NHS
• Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Her research explores intersections of ethics and aesthetics in teaching quantitative methodologies, posthuman feminism, queering pedagogical practices in late capitalism, and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches to treating patients with personality disorders in secure hospitals. Recent publications analyze embodied practices in arts therapies through new materialist frameworks and examine employment challenges under austerity policies.

Her 15 most recent articles (2 shown) focus on therapeutic relationality, boundary dynamics, and socio-political contexts in art psychotherapy, with sub-fields spanning posthuman theory, forensic ethics, and Lacanian clinical applications.