Lorna Collins, FHEA, FRSPH is an artist, filmmaker, writer and arts educator. She is the author of Making Sense: Art Practice and Transformative Therapeutics (Bloomsbury) and a series of children’s fiction, beginning with Squawk: A Book of Bird Adventures (Pegasus). She is co-editor of Deleuze and The Schizoanalysis of Visual Art (Bloomsbury). She has written articles about mental health, the NHS, creativity and art in The Independent, The Guardian and The British Medical Journal. Lorna’s artistic, literary and research outputs respond to her lived experience of traumatic brain injury, total amnesia and decades of detainment with psychiatric illness. Her TEDx Talk, discussing all of the above, is called “How Creativity Revived Me".
