ABSTRACT
This edited volume explores the singularity of embodiment and somatic approaches in the healing of trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre and performance perspective.
Collating voices from across the fields of dramatherapy, theatre and performance, this book examines how different interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches offer unique and unexplored perspectives on the body as a medium for the exploration, expression and resolution of chronic, acute and complex trauma as well as collective and intergenerational trauma. The diverse chapters highlight how the intersection between dramatherapy and body-based approaches in theatre and performance offers additional opportunities to explore and understand the creative, expressive and imaginative capacity of the body, and its application to the healing of trauma.
The book will be of particular interest to dramatherapists and other creative and expressive arts therapists. It will also appeal to counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and theatre scholars.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|115 pages
Theoretical Perspectives
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
The Emotional Body
chapter Chapter 3|18 pages
Playful and Poetic Embodiment for Indirect Processing of Trauma Using Masks
chapter Chapter 4|15 pages
Engaging the Body From a Distance
chapter Chapter 5|15 pages
Therapy of Gesture
chapter Chapter 6|16 pages
Playing in Multifaceted Trauma
part II|11 pages
Intersection
part III|110 pages
Practice and Research Perspectives