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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... therapy . Not counting assessment sessions , the research comprised 349 individual therapy sessions and 60 group sessions ( 340 client sessions ) . In the first period of the research the participants met Introduction.
... clients are used throughout . These are taken from taped research interviews , journals and clinical notes . I have obtained permission for the use of these quotations . Whenever I have used a transcription of the actual words of a ...
... clients in my private or NHS practice : all have given permission for me to refer to their work . When I have needed to further ensure someone's anonymity I have written , ' One man / woman said ... ' . I have also used other ...
... clients . I describe projected play , especially the use of miniature objects including toy theatre . I introduce ... client has a choice . As Hogman and Sandamas ( 2000 : 7 ) conclude : ' Positive outcomes are increased if people are ...
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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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