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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... practice , essential to all those interested in promoting the safe use of these methods in therapy . John Casson is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice , and is a senior trainer in the Northern School of Psychodrama ...
... practice 239 Afterword by Dr Sue Jennings 249 Appendix 1 Voices interview 252 254 256 Appendix 2 The etymology of ' whelm ' Appendix 3 Purchasing the Five Story Self Structure Appendix 4 Comparative costings : hospital , medication and ...
... practice ; it has been the basis for understanding what suffering human beings experience while struggling to find their way back into the world at large and to feel humble when some of them are successful . Being in the function of ...
... 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 appropriate ways to conceal the ...
... 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 groups of people who hear voices and have psychotic ...
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 |