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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... psychosis / John Casson . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 1-58391-804-3 ( hbk .: alk . paper ) — ISBN 1-58391-805-1 ( pbk . : alk . paper ) 1. Psychodrama . 2. Psychoses - Treatment . 3. Auditory ...
... psychotic experience the director and observer temporarily drop away and the actor takes over . I believe the other two are burnt up in ' the white heat of action ' . It is part of the therapeutic function to restore these two parts ...
... psychosis : one man , one woman ( both survivors of physical abuse ) Organic psychotic illness : one man ( survivor of physical abuse ) Personality disorder : two women ( both survivors of rape , one of sexual abuse ) ' Neurotic with ...
... psychotic / dissociative experiences , for example one woman said she had a three - way split in her personality : • • • the white side of treacle ( she mentioned an overpowering teacher ) her bad self ' Twat ' herself now . She said ...
... Psychosis and hearing voices 1 : a historical perspective ' , I look back over the history of hearing voices , psychosis and psychotherapy beginning with shamanism . I explore whether psychotic experience has meaning or not and provide ...
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 |