ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to address the healing potentials of the Trinidad Carnival as a foundation of self/communal therapy, negating the need for psychotherapists in the country. With special emphasis on dance, music and theatre/oral tradition, the first section reviews the relationship of these art forms to the Trinidad individual and society. Of particular importance here is the freedom to adapt body movement, rhythms and role-plays which have originated elsewhere, in addition to the facility of improvisation in performance.
