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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Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People who Hear Voices John Witham Casson. Psychosis Drama , Psychotherapy and Psychosis explores the use of drama and theatre with people who hear voices , focusing especially on survivors of ahuse and ...
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 ...
Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People who Hear Voices John Witham Casson. Introduction This book is the result of six years ' doctoral research into dramatherapy and psychodrama as psychotherapeutic interventions with people who hear ...
Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People who Hear Voices John Witham Casson. Confidentiality To protect the ... dramatherapy ' , I provide a history of the development of these creative action methods and a survey of relevant literature ...
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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