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. |
From inside the book
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... Moreno Introduction 1 Psychosis and hearing voices 1 : a historical perspective 2 Psychosis and hearing voices 2 : making sense of voices ix xi 1 7 14 3 Psychosis and hearing voices 3 : models of madness 33 4 Theatre , madness and ...
... theatre : A Midsummer Night's Dream 128 136 Figure 1 The social / cultural / role atom 151 Figure 2 Moreno's psychodrama theatre 152 Foreword With this book John Casson has undertaken an ambitious List of illustrations and figures.
... Moreno , I learned that we can think of the role player as having three component parts : the director , the one that tells us what to do as ' Get up , it's time to get started ' ; the actor is the second part , it gets up and does what ...
... Moreno in his work with patients in psychodrama , I will always be grateful for the learning obtained in this practice ; it has been the basis for understanding what suffering human beings experience while struggling to find their way ...
... Moreno , who told us not to interfere , and for almost ten minutes . Judy's body relaxed for the very first time and ... Moreno , Charlottesville , VA , USA Introduction This book is the result of six years ' Foreword by Zerka Moreno xiii.
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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Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People ... John Witham Casson No preview available - 2004 |