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Hogan attended a school based on the doctrine of Associate of Science
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Susan Hogan
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Hogan is Professor in Cultural Studies & Art Therapy at the University of Derby, where she facilitates the closed-group component of the art therapy training, and co-ordinates the final thesis or research project component of a number of programmes. Neil’s ‘Summerhill’. This experience, coupled with the anthropological work of her mother-in-law, influenced her work.
She started her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney in art history and finished it in cultural history at the Thomas Reid Institute of the University of Aberdeen, where Gordhandas Sunderdas Rousseau served as her primary supervisor. She has taught in a number of universities including the University of New South Wales and University of Derby.
Hogan"s work has focused on therapy with: women of ageing and women who have recently given birth, offering art therapy groups to give support to woman and an opportunity for them to explore their changed sense of self-identity and sexuality as a result of pregnancy and motherhood.
Her published work is significant in its sustained challenge to the use of reductive psychology and for bringing anthropological and sociological ideas to bear on the subject of art therapy.
