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Contents Preface Chapter 1 What is Dramatherapy? Introduction Child Survivors of a tsunami in Sri Lanka A woman in a group for older people who hear voices in England A group for adolescents with hiv in South Africa A teenager in a schools for pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties in England A woman in individual therapy in England A child from Sierra Leone Drama as necessary to Living Basic tenets of Dramatherapy Definition of Dramatherapy Who is Dramatherapy for? What happens in Dramatherapy? The basic processes of Dramatherapy The expressive forms of Dramatherapy The basic shape Box 1.1 Dramatherapy - the basic shape Dramatherapy and meaning Building blocks: creativity, play, drama and healing Therapeutic change and Dramatherapy: how psychological disturbance is construed The contexts of Dramatherapy Past and current models of Dramatherapy Chapter 2 From amphitheatre to operating theatre? Drama, theatre and therapy - a history Introduction: three histories Healing, drama, theatre A twentieth-century context The emergence of Dramatherapy Healing, drama, theatre The meeting of drama and therapy: a twentieth-century context Context - hospital theatre A history of a hospital theatre - Julio de Matos, Lisbon Context - twentieth-century theatre and therapy Memory, the unconscious, empathy and character Transgression and change Theatre, distance, disturbance, revolution Context - Early pioneers: Evreinov, Iljine, Moreno Evreinov and Theatrotherapy Iljine Improvisation training Therapeutic theatre Theme identification Reflection on themes Scenario design Scenario realisation Reflection/feedback Moreno Context - dramaturgy: doing is being is acting Context - play and drama in education Summary Chapter 3 The emergence of Dramatherapy Introduction The emergence of Dramatherapy: an overview of documented practice from 1939 Drama and theatre: arts in hospitals Handmaid and adjunct Drama as the therapy? Vignette Sylvester's Dream From individuals to profession Three interviews: Slade, Lindkvist, Jennings Interview with Peter Slade Interview with (Marian) Billy Lindkvist Interview with Sue Jennings Training and associations With the development of training programmes and associations, how did Dramatherapy change? Orientation and the changing face of health care Summary Chapter 4 Dramatherapy and philosophy: belief and proof Introduction What is Philosophy? Useful perspectives Philosophy and the therapeutic space The therapy space and change The dramatherapy space and meaning: harmless bonus or liberation? Vignette Thomas The therapy space: scientism and obscurantism Vignette Jake Postmodernism and co-construction A third way? Phenomenology and after Identity: selves in relation? Action, relation and role The embodied self: a connected world? Vignette Clients with eating disorders Conclusion Chapter 5 Dramatherapy: therapeutic core processes Introduction Why should change happen in Dramatherapy? Dramatic projection Vignette: Brenda Research Conversation Jo Van Den Bosch Playing Vignette Colette Research Conversation: Jay Vaughan Role playing and personification Dramatherapeutic empathy and distancing Vignette Zandile and Nomsa Research Conversation: Kirsten Meyer Active witnessing Vignette Research Conversation Mario Guarnieri and Emma Ramsden Embodiment: the dramatic body Vignette Maya Research Conversation Shu Ling Lin Life-drama connection Transformation Vignette Lynne Research Conversation Christine Novy Vignette Abui Research Conversation Roya Dooman Summary Chapter 6 Dramatic projection Introduction Projection: a psychological perspective Vignette Peter and the Helmet Figure 6.2 Peter and dramatic projection Dramatherapy, projective techniques Small worlds Box 6.2 Dramatic projection and small worlds Box 6.3 Dramatic projection and World Technique Vignette Sarah Vignette Jilly Research Conversation Jo Van Den Bosch Puppetry Masks Script and story Summary Figure 6.3 Dramatic projection in Dramatherapy Chapter 7 Play and playing Vignette The Falling Man Research Vignette: Children and the Tsunami Research Conversation Debra Colkett Play in Dramatherapy What is play? A twentieth-century perspective Box 8.2 Dramatherapy - important play areas Vignette Girls' Play in Silwa Cultural factors in play Play and Dramatherapy Overview: key concepts Playing and playfulness Play content and the `play shift' Developmental approach Dramatherapy practice and play The general process of play as a vehicle in Dramatherapy Box 8.3 Dramatherapy guide - discovering play language Play content in Dramatherapy The use of play space in Dramatherapy Creation of play worlds Vignette Two weeks left Research Conversation Jo Rogers A developmental approach and the play-drama continuum The play-drama continuum Summary of the play-drama continuum Box 8.4 Key aspects of the play-drama continuum Sensorimotor play Context Vignette Ellen Vignette Objects Imitative play Figure 8.2 Imitation: the brief repetition of phenomenon Context Vignette Facial/bodily Imitation Vignette Imitation of Gesture Pretend play Figure 8.3 Pretend play: the representational use of objects and beginnings of make believe play Context Vignette Theresa Dramatic play Figure 8.4 Dramatic play: sustained fantasy and enacted portrayal of others Vignette Amy Drama Figure 8.5 Drama: sustained enactment with consciousness of audience Vignette Developmental Play Research Vignette Joe Research Conversation Clare Powis Summary Chapter 8 Role The enacted self Vignette Ballet Dress Research Vignette Island Research Conversation Clare Hubbard Research Vignette Women with BPD who self harm. Research Conversation Debra Colkett Contexts for role in Dramatherapy Breach, disturbance, change Self, learning and exploration Ecstasy and rationality Dramatherapy and role Figure 9.4 Dramatherapy and role Research Vignette Patrick Research Conversation Nancy Secchi Dramatherapy practice and role Figure 9.5 Pattern of role taking in Dramatherapy Enrolement Box 9.1 Enrolement factors Box 9.2 Pre-role checklist Role activity De-Roling and assimilation Research Vignette Grace Research Conversation Lily Levy Summary Chapter 9 The Dramatic Body Introduction Plate 7.1 Schlemmer's body transformations in theatrical space (from Gropius, 1979), Plate 7.2 Schlemmer's body transformations in theatrical space (from Gropius, 1979), Background to the Dramatic Body The body and identity: an overview Constructing the Dramatic Body The Dramatic Body in Dramatherapy practice Developing the potential body Box 7.1 Main areas of concern - the potential body Body transformation Bodily memory and the two bodies Case study 7.4 Body Map Vignette The Waste Land Research Conversation Madeline Andersen Warren Vignette The potential body in action Vignette Biomechanics Workshop Research Conversation Anna Seymourt Summary Chapter 10 Symbol and metaphor Vignette The Prince in the Tower Plate 10.1 Sleeping Beauty Plate 10.2 Open the Door for You Mother Said the Wolf Plate 10.3 The Bird from Tree to Tree Plate 10.4. The Tower with the Window Plate 10.5. The Three Doors in the Tower Plate 10.6. The Prince with the Door Key Figure 10.2 The Prince in the Tower: two dramatic metaphors Vignette Barbed Wire Circle Symbols & Metaphors in Dramatherapy The symbol: a nebula of meaning The metaphor: from one object to another Figure 10.1 The metaphoric connection Dramatherapy practice and the connected world Research Vignette Bilal Research Conversation Ruth Goodman Research Vignette Kia Research Conversation Sarah Mann Shaw Connection and assimilation Research Vignette Beth Research Conversation Christine Novy Summary Chapter 11 Dramatherapy and ritual Introduction Drama, theatre and ritual Efficacy and ritual Dramatherapy and ritual Dramatherapy practice and ritual Re-framing rituals Vignette Easter Cake The creation of dramas using ritual forms Vignette Menstruation Ritual Summary Chapter 12 Assessment, recording and evaluation in dramatherapy Introduction Assessment Evaluation Assessment and evaluation: the basic process Approaches to assessment and evaluation in Dramatherapy Why assess? The problems with assessment and evaluation Assessment methodologies Vignette Assessment in Dramatherapy The media within Dramatherapy Jones' adaptation of scale of dramatic involvement Projective techniques The social atom Figure 12.1 Social atom Research Vignette: Suraya Research Conversation Vanitha Chandrasegaram Research Vignette: John Second assessment session Research Vignette: Later session Research Conversation Clare Hubbard Research Vignette: Mountain Climb Expedition Research Conversation Jay Vaughan Research Vignette Desert Journey Research Conversation Naomi Gardner Role playing tests Johnson's role playing test Table 12.1 Diagnostic role playing test - complexity of representations Play influenced assessment Lowenfeld's World Technique Adapting assessment methods Parten's social participation scale Box 12.1 Parten's social participation scale Recording sessions Written Dramatherapy recording sample Dramatherapy group Summary Appendix 1 Research Vignettes and Conversations: the Approach to Resaerch contained in this book
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Drama -- Therapeutic use.
Psychodrama.