Writing

Clinical inquiry, cultural analysis, and the medical humanities — at the intersection of art psychotherapy, ethnography, and medicine.

Isabelle writes at the boundary where clinical practice meets cultural theory. Her work asks what medicine misses when it reduces illness to biology — and what becomes possible when ritual, symbol, story, and ancestral knowledge are treated as clinical data.

Her writing is grounded in active hospital practice and shaped by her training in art psychotherapy, medical anthropology, and ethnography. It is intended for clinicians, researchers, medical humanities scholars, and interdisciplinary readers who want rigor without reductionism.

The Crevice — Substack

The Crevice is Isabelle's long-form clinical and cultural writing practice.

Topics include multicultural art psychotherapy, cultural responsiveness in medical settings, medical syncretism, embodied knowledge, grief and ritual, and the theoretical foundations of art psychotherapy as clinical medicine.

Read on Substack

• A Transylvanian Ethnographer's Perspective on Robert Eggers' Nosferatu — cultural analysis through Romanian folklore, diaspora identity, and the ethnographic gaze

• How Art Therapy Supports Well-Being for the Individual and Community — on cultural hegemony, critical thought, and the role of art therapy in meaning-making

• The Future of Mental Health is Ancient

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Isabelle is currently developing writing toward peer-reviewed publication, with a primary target of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.

Focus areas for submission include the medical syncretism framework, Two-Eyed Seeing in pediatric clinical practice, and cultural responsiveness in art psychotherapy with medically complex populations.

Interested in collaborating on research or co-authorship?

Published Work

Beyond the Cape of Dracula

An ethnographic and autoethnographic exploration of Transylvanian matriarchal symbolism, Romanian folklore, and ancestral feminist practice — examined through the lens of personal identity, art therapy, and cultural memory.

Singularity Storytelling

Experimental art and poetry exploration in navigating digital and analog identities, mental health, and survivorship.

Writing Themes

Isabelle's writing spans the following areas:

• Medical syncretism and Two-Eyed Seeing in clinical practice

• Cultural psychiatry and diaspora identity

• Art psychotherapy as a primary clinical modality

• Grief, ritual, and existential medicine

• Romanian and Eastern European folklore as healing epistemology

• Embodiment, somatics, and psychosomatic medicine

• Medical humanities and interdisciplinary inquiry