ABSTRACT

The third volume of Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice brings the reader up-to-date with the latest developments in the profession of dramatherapy and tackles key issues in contemporary social relationships. It shows how dramatherapy is evolving its own theory and methodology as well as specific models for supervision and assessment. Dramatherapy is now being used in a broad continuum of care and contributors give many examples of its practice in contexts of prevention, maintenance and cure.
This new volume has twenty-nine international contributors and covers major new themes of gender, race and politics as well as incorporating the latest method, theoretical concepts and research.

part I|80 pages

Developments in theory and method

chapter 1|14 pages

‘Knocking at the gate’

Dramatherapy and the critical tradition

chapter 4|12 pages

The therapeusis of the audience

chapter 5|16 pages

Personagrams

The exploration of our inner world through group sculpting

chapter 6|10 pages

The mask of self

part II|106 pages

Applied dramatherapy with individuals and groups

chapter 7|30 pages

Masking and unmasking

Dramatherapy with offender patients

chapter 8|15 pages

“To feel absent from one’s voice”

Trial therapy with a young immigrant woman

chapter 9|15 pages

The case of Sam

Application of the taxonomy of roles to assessment, treatment and evaluation

chapter 10|18 pages

‘The tethered goat and the poppy field’

Dominant symbols in dramatherapy

chapter 11|13 pages

The drum, the mouse and the boy in the glass palace

Brief dramatherapy with a client with chronic catatonic schizophrenia

chapter 12|13 pages

‘Sharing my story’

Dramatherapy for survival

part III|74 pages

Gender issues in supervision and practice

chapter 13|16 pages

Gender issues in supervision

chapter 14|16 pages

Playing with the perpetrator

Gender dynamics in developmental drama therapy

chapter 16|11 pages

Jacques and His Master

Working with oppression and marginality

chapter 17|16 pages

Different therefore equal?

Dramatherapy and frame analysis with a learning disabled man

part IV|86 pages

Dramatherapy, politics and culture

chapter 19|15 pages

Dramatherapy

Radical intervention or counter-insurgency?

chapter 21|11 pages

Children of the Troubles

chapter 22|15 pages

The drama has just begun

chapter 23|17 pages

The Trinidad Carnival

A cross-cultural drama of seduction and communal therapy