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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... Individual psychodrama Dramatherapy with groups Drama , Psychotherapy and Psychosis demonstrates how creative action methods can be helpful to those who hear voices . It provides guidelines for good practice , essential to all those ...
... individuals : finding a voice and telling stories 92 7 The wave and the whelm : distance and empowerment 114 216 8 Individual dramatherapy : Cheryll 126 9 The theatre model of the self 146 10 Group dramatherapy 11 Individual psychodrama ...
... individual or group therapy . Six ( four women and two men ) were offered forty - four sessions of individual therapy . Another woman was offered forty sessions of individual therapy . Three men who were waiting for a group were given ...
... Individual dramatherapy : Cheryll ' , I describe the therapy of one woman using many dramatherapy methods in 156 sessions over three and a half years . In Chapter 9 , ' The theatre model of the self " , I offer a theory of the self that ...
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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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Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People ... John Witham Casson No preview available - 2004 |