title: Jo Spence's auto-therapeutic survival strategies.
abstract: The use of the camera as a therapeutic tool is now being increasingly applied within clinical practice (photo-therapy) and, by the public, is being used as a form of non-clinical therapeutic photography. The subject of the present article, the late Jo Spence, was a pioneer and advocate of this approach and worked out a number of strategies that might usefully be passed on to a younger generation. Jo Spence's work is complex and multi-sided. For this reason, this article expands on some of the categories discussed in earlier publications, placing them in their historical context, as well as adding key photographic illustrations.
authors.affiliation: Jo Spence Memorial Archive, 152 Upper Street, London, UK. Dennett@GMX.net
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dennett
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010781:Photography / Q000266:history; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology