ABSTRACT

Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing People Through Creativity demonstrates how dramatherapy can empower those individuals struggling to live with borderline personality disorder, and help them embrace and control the emotional inner chaos they experience.

 

Based on current research into the aetiology, symptoms and co-morbid disorders associated with BPD (and emotionally unstable personality disorder), this book demonstrates the effectiveness of dramatherapy for individuals and groups on specialist personality disorder wards and in mixed diagnosis rehabilitation units. It also reveals a creative approach for making dramatherapy work in harmony with approaches such as dialectical behaviour therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy.

 

Aimed at those working with service users, and utilising a range of case studies and clinical vignettes, Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder provides an insight into the potential of dramatherapy, which will be welcomed by mental health professionals.

part 1|71 pages

Definitions, history, theory and treatment options

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

BPD

A complex and emotional mental health disorder

chapter 3|27 pages

Psychological Treatments for BPD

chapter 4|18 pages

Embrace and Contain the Chaos

Dramatherapy for BPD

part 2|84 pages

Dramatherapy clinical case studies and vignettes

chapter 5|39 pages

Breaking Inner Chains

Dramatherapy on a secure ward for women with BPD

chapter 6|17 pages

A Cry for Freedom

Dramatherapy with women in a secure step-down unit

chapter 7|18 pages

Dancing between Life and Death

chapter 8|8 pages

Hope, Courage and Creativity