ABSTRACT
When engaging in a dramatherapy session the therapist and the patient(s) or client(s) are entering into uncharted lands. How far they travel will depend on how far each of them is prepared to open up their creative and psychodynamic processes. The risks can seem great for our often emotionally damaged patients and clients – and for the therapist. In the dramatherapy session we have the potential to open ourselves up to the worlds in our imaginations. Invited – and uninvited – characters may want to join in our play. In addition, before therapist and patient can enter those worlds of imagination in the dramatherapy session, there will be influences outside the therapy room that affect how, or indeed whether, a patient might do so. This chapter explores such issues within a reflection on a case study of one-to-one work conducted over forty-seven sessions.
