Beyond Psychology: An Arts-Based Visual Inquiry

Practicing psychologists are typically positioned as expert practitioners, disembodied from their own psyche and the spiritual realm, engaged in assessment, formulation and intervention with their focus on the other. This paper serves as a psychologists’ arts-based visual inquiry, engaging in a dialogical research with his own psyche. In particular it serves as an inquiry about religion and restoration. The questions that I asked were. (1) How might we find hope in an apocalypse? (2) Can religion be possible without God? (3) How might art serve a form of restoration without psychology?