To Not Follow Under
By Leah Clements
How can we navigate anxiety alone?
Leah Clements’ film draws parallels between sleep therapy, deep sea rescue diving and psychotherapy – connecting the researcher, diver and psychologist as roles of care which require them to follow the person they’re observing, rescuing or supporting, be that entering unconsciousness, trapped at depth in the ocean or sharing personal and emotional experiences.
There is always a cut-off point, at which the carer cannot continue to follow the person that they are helping. Articulating anxiety as an experience that can only be partially shared, Clements highlights the deeply personal experience of navigating anxiety, and the risk to those journeying alone through this experience.
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About the contributor(s)
Leah Clements
Leah Clements’ practice is concerned with the relationship between the psychological, emotional, and physical, often through personal accounts of experiences of unusual, odd, or hard-to-articulate forms of consciousness. Her work has also focused on sickness/cripness/disability in art, in critical and practical ways.
In March 2019 Leah launched Access Docs for Artists: an online resource made in collaboration with Lizzy Rose and Alice Hattrick to help disabled artists create and use access documents.
Guy Leschziner, Consultant Neurologist at the Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's Hospital
After qualifying from Oxford and Imperial College, Dr Leschziner completed basic medical training at Guy’s and St Thomas’. He undertook a PhD at Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, in the genetics of epilepsy, before completing higher training in neurology at Charing Cross Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.
He now sees patients with sleep disorders, epilepsy, and general neurology conditions. He also works within the nationally-commissioned neurofibromatosis centre at Guy’s Hospital.