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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... offers alternative models of madness and the self , which form the basis for therapeutic interventions . Illustrated by case histories and practical examples , the book includes chapters covering : · • Historical perspectives on ...
... offers of 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 ...
... offer a theory of the self that can inform clinical practice , offering the therapist a template metaphor to contain the many possible aspect of self . In Chapter 10 , ' Group dramatherapy ' , I describe my practice of dramatherapy in ...
... offer different perspectives , including the spiritual dimension ( see Grainger , 1995 ; Lindqvist , 1994 ) : these creative action methods have an important contrihution to make to services . Acknowledgements I am grateful to the ...
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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 |