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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... methods can be helpful to those who hear voices . It provides guidelines for good practice , essential to all those interested in promoting the safe use of these methods in therapy . John Casson is a psychotherapist and supervisor in ...
... therapy Appendix 5 The Morenean method of psychodramatising suicidal ideation References Author index Subject index 257 260 261 275 279 Illustrations and figures Illustration 1 Babushka collection 104 Illustration 2 viii Contents.
... methods in psychotherapy . The research in brief The research was carried out between 1996 and 2000 in two adjacent National Health Service ( NHS ) psychiatric services : over the years I gradually received a total of forty - two ...
... methods and a survey of relevant literature on their use with people who hear voices or have a diagnosis of schizophrenia . I provide definitions of dramatherapy and psychodrama ; note the research recently carried out into the value of ...
... 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 can inform clinical practice , offering the therapist a template metaphor to contain the many ...
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 |