Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People who Hear VoicesPsychology Press, 2004 - 285 pages John Casson - Winner of the British Psychodrama Association (BPA) Lifetime Achievement Award 2012! Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis explores the use of drama and theatre in the challenging area of working with people who hear voices, focusing especially on survivors of abuse and those diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. In examining the often baffling and frightening world of psychosis the book offers alternative models of madness and the self, which form the basis for therapeutic interventions. |
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... Casson is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice , and is a senior trainer in the Northern School of Psychodrama . He works part - time as a psy- chodrama psychotherapist and dramatherapist at the Bowness High Dependency ...
Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People who Hear Voices John Witham Casson. 12 Group psychodrama 197 13 What is helpful and not helpful in dramatherapy and psychodrama 212 14 Guidelines for good practice 239 Afterword by Dr Sue Jennings ...
Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People who Hear Voices John Witham Casson. Foreword With this book John Casson has undertaken an ambitious task : to cover the field of mental illness , especially as expressed in the phenomenon of ...
Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People who Hear Voices John Witham Casson. by patients to reconstruct themselves . Regrettably , they appear largely as critics and add to the confusion . Having assisted J. L. Moreno in his work with ...
... Casson's book is a most valuable and inspiring resource and he is to be congratulated for having made his work available to us . He also hopes it will encourage others to venture into this field which is filled with question marks and ...
Contents
Psychosis and hearing voices 1 a historical perspective | 7 |
Psychosis and hearing voices 2 making sense of voices | 14 |
Psychosis and hearing voices 3 models of madness | 33 |
Theatre madness and healing | 51 |
The twentieth century theatrotherapy psychodrama and dramatherapy | 63 |
Dramatherapy with individuals finding a voice and telling stories | 92 |
The wave and the whelm distance and empowerment | 114 |
Individual dramatherapy Cheryll | 126 |
What is helpful and not helpful in dramatherapy and psychodrama | 212 |
Guidelines for good practice | 239 |
Afterword | 249 |
Voices interview | 252 |
The etymology of whelm | 254 |
Purchasing the Five Story Self Structure | 256 |
Comparative costings hospital medication and therapy | 257 |
The Morenean method of psychodramatising suicidal ideation | 260 |
The theatre model of the self | 146 |
Group dramatherapy | 163 |
Individual psychodrama Harry | 182 |
Group psychodrama | 197 |
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