Dramatherapy

Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice 2 provides both clinician and theatre artist with a basic overview of recent developments in dramatherapy. The international contributors, all practising dramatherapists or psychotherapists, offer a wide variety of perspectives from contrasting theoretical backgrounds, showing how it is possible to integrate a dramatherapeutic approach into many different ways of working towards mental health.

Introduction 1. Therapeutic Journies Through King Lear Sue Jennings 2. The Place of the Metaphor in Psychotherapy Supervision: Creative Tensions between Forensic Psychotherapy and Dramatherapy Murray Cox 3. Therapy in Drama Pat Watts 4. Therapeutic Theatre: a para-theatrical model Dramatherapy Steve Mitchell 5. Enactment, Therapy and Behaviour David Holt 6. The Building Blocks of Dramatherapy Ted Wharam 7. One-on-one: The Role of the Dramatherapist Working with Individuals Robert Landy 8. The Drama Therapist "In Role" David Read Johnson 9. Playtherapy and Dramatherapy with Young Children who have been abused Ann Cattanach 10. Storymaking in Assessment Methods for Coping with Stress Mooli Lahad 11. Dramatherapy and Thought Disorder Roger Grainger 12. Theatre as Community Therapy Bella Sheper