This book presents a seven-step model for insight and change using the action method, Psychotheatrics, which uses the expressive arts to transform the storytelling experience into a phenomenological framework for depicting challenges, strategies and outcomes resulting in the dynamic illustration of inter-subjective meaning.

From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume, contributors-literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture-examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go...

Just after the Second World War Rosie Baker, a working girl from the slums of inner-city Auckland, beaten and close to death, is dumped from a flash city car onto the long grass outside an isolated farm gate. The two young farmers, maimed by war wounds and recovering from combat-induced madness, battling both the hostile and marginal farm, as well as their own insanity, fight to save Rosie. As Rosie recovers, she sees her chance to build a new life for both herself and the men, but Rosie's secrets and her own pathology bring the men and those around them to the edge of disaster. A gritty...

Garrison and Harry, returning to their homes on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island after the First World War, embark on a manhunt into the rugged High Country. They search for a boyhood friend, Dan McGill - a murderer and a man with dark secrets which tear the small town of Whistle Point apart. As the two hunters become prey themselves, they begin to understand the true nature of their own violent past, and the cost of trying to leave it behind. They learn, from Dan McGill, the higher price of denying the true nature of self. This High Country adventure of men and horses, mountains...

Frank McGann is a Catholic priest with no faith. His face is burned beyond recognition. He is scarred and traumatised, and his life has descended into a world of violence, chaos, and betrayal. His only allies are a cynical and lost female news reporter, a nine year old girl, and an old renegade priest. As he drifts ever closer to disaster, it is only them that can save him. As Frank McGann becomes the unlikely protector of Jazzy, a small girl who believes that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her, a cynical media and the Catholic authorities combine to destroy both Frank and the girl. The...

This is a story of fathers and their sons. The Synotts are a family of petty criminals in West Auckland. Nothing big, nothing violent, nothing too heavy, the insurance companies the only real victims, until one of the sons, Glenn, turns armed bank robber with fatal consequences, placing the whole family in the firing line and in the hands of the most dangerous man in the city. When Glenn's own parents, Ray and Ann, melt under a blowtorch of danger and tragedy, it is Pat, Glenn's grandfather, old and rambling and seemingly irrelevant, who challenges the family to find the courage and...

"My name is Jacob. I am South African. I have come here to kill a man," Jacob whispered at the angry ocean as he sat on Muriwai Beach, a place of wild surf and screaming winds. This is the very arse end of the world, he thought. Black sand, black mood, black arse, he chuckled. And as Jacob plans the murder of the white policeman who raped his wife back in the final, violent days of South African Apartheid, he meets Shelly, a local woman fighting her own enemy- cancer; and as she is dragged into Jacob's world of madness, Shelly knows that like the giant surf at Muriwai, his insanity is capable...