Robert P. Gray

Neo-adjuvant FOLFOX with and without panitumumab for patients with KRAS-wt locally advanced colon cancer: results following an extended biomarker panel on the FOxTROT trial embedded phase II population

Jenny F. Seligmann, Dion G Morton, Faye Elliott, Katelyn F. Handley et autres

BACKGROUND: The FOxTROT trial has reported advantages of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in locally advanced colon cancer (LACC). In this article, we present results of the embedded randomised phase II trial testing the addition of panitumumab to neoadjuvant FOLFOX compared with FOLFOX alone …

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Anthracycline-containing and taxane-containing chemotherapy for early-stage operable breast cancer: a patient-level meta-analysis of 100 000 women from 86 randomised trials

Jeremy P. Braybrooke, Rosie Bradley, Richard G. Gray, Robert K. Hills et autres

BACKGROUND: Anthracycline-taxane chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer substantially improves survival compared with no chemotherapy. However, concerns about short-term and long-term side-effects of anthracyclines have led to increased use of taxane chemotherapy without anthracycline, which could compromise efficacy. We aimed to better characterise …

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Positive art therapy

Robert P. Gray

In the last 70 years psychologists and psychotherapists in general have dramatically increased their knowledge and understanding of psychological disorders and their treatment, however, by the end of the century the American psychologist Martin Seligman and Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2000) claimed …

Art Therapy and Psychology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Practitioners

Robert P. Gray

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Robert Gray offers a thorough and well-rounded clinical guide to exploring the depth of the unconscious through art in psychotherapy. He emphasises the clinical relevance of art therapy and critically highlights ideas around evidence-based practice and the link …

Creative Mind Ordering (CMO): Change neural pathways

Robert P. Gray

Since the advancement of neuroscience, a field that has highly contributed to research of brain activity, recent studies have been able to evaluate some of the effects of art therapy on different brain regions, showing how the brain and body respond to …

Goals: Overcome obstacles

Robert P. Gray

Our understanding of achieving a goal is usually connected to a practical accomplishment. Most of us are driven to achieve in some way or another, unless we have very little motivation. A spiritual or holistic goal that involves different aspects of our …

Life Script: Create an alternative script

Robert P. Gray

A Life Script is a set way of thinking about how we should live our life, often based on decisions made in early childhood, sometimes during adolescence, and even later in life. Often, a rule we give ourselves, or someone gives us …

Group art therapy

Robert P. Gray

As an art therapist, I would like to be as open and non-directive as I can be. As a psychologist, I have the need to be more clinically structured, so I can get to the bottom of the issues of my group …

Representational images, projective drawings and the House-Tree-Person (HTP) task

Robert P. Gray

While many art therapists and psychologists considered the HTP test as unreliable for revealing or measuring the complexities of the unconscious, projective drawings like the House-Tree-Person task can be an excellent therapeutic tool for the assessment and counselling process as shown in …

Abstract art and the self-picture mind map

Robert P. Gray

Elements of abstract art appear in many early cultures as signs or inscriptions on rocks, or marks and decoration on pottery, where simple geometric and linear forms were used. The result of the technique that are used in this chapter is quite …

Self-Box: Become authentic and integrate traumatic memories

Robert P. Gray

I have found the Self-Box or Jungian box to be one of the most popular art therapy techniques in the world. The box, often an empty shoe box, is painted and decorated with different materials that symbolise ‘ You ’. This chapter …

Advancing art therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)

Robert P. Gray

This chapter is about an integration of art therapy with CBT that could benefit clients who otherwise may not be treated with CBT alone. In my experience, many CBT therapists are struggling today, as they feel something is missing to make a …