ABSTRACT

Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice 2 provides both clinician and theatre artist with a basic overview of recent developments in dramatherapy. The international contributors, all practising dramatherapists or psychotherapists, offer a wide variety of perspectives from contrasting theoretical backgrounds, showing how it is possible to integrate a dramatherapeutic approach into many different ways of working towards mental health.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|14 pages

‘Reason in madness'

Therapeutic journeys through King Lear

chapter Chapter 2|19 pages

The place of metaphor in psychotherapy supervision

Creative tensions between forensic psychotherapy and dramatherapy 1

chapter Chapter 3|13 pages

Therapy in drama

chapter Chapter 4|17 pages

Therapeutic theatre

A para-theatrical model of dramatherapy

chapter Chapter 5|14 pages

Enactment, therapy and behaviour

chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

One-on-one

The role of the dramatherapist working with individuals

chapter Chapter 10|14 pages

Story-making in assessment method for coping with stress

Six-piece story-making and BASIC Ph

chapter Chapter 12|13 pages

Theatre as community therapy

An exploration of the interrelationship between the audience and the theatre