This book is about the therapeutic nature of theatre. It roots the work I have done over the past 19 years as a dramatherapist and counselling psychologist in my own experience of the professional theatre and of psychotherapy. In order to do this I have to pay attention to the the origins of my own involvement, as someone personally healed by theatre, as well as my consequent work as a healer myself and the research I have carried out into dramatherapy. Whereas my previous books about Dramatherapy tended to be addressed mainly to other arts therapists, this one is intended for...
This book is about the therapeutic nature of theatre. It roots the work I have done over the past 19 years as a dramatherapist and counselling psychol...
The author shows how drama therapy draws on both drama and ritual. He argues that personal construct theory provides a hermeneutically useful approach to the study of drama therapy. He shows that drama therapy itself is an effective treatment for depression and schizophrenia, having a measurable effect on thought disorder; he thus tries to be as definite as possible about a subject which resists the 'scientific' apporach, and he is concerned not only to think rationally about drama therapy, but to examine the specific relationship between rational thought and artistic experience which allows...
The author shows how drama therapy draws on both drama and ritual. He argues that personal construct theory provides a hermeneutically useful approach...
