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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... results of these interventions , including those of his own . From J. L. Moreno , I learned that we can think of the role player as having three component parts : the director , the one that tells us what to do as ' Get up , it's time ...
... hopes it will encourage others to venture into this field which is filled with question marks and challenges . Zerka T. Moreno , Charlottesville , VA , USA Introduction This book is the result of six years ' Foreword by Zerka Moreno xiii.
... result of six years ' doctoral research into dramatherapy and psychodrama as psychotherapeutic interventions with people who hear voices and eighteen years ' experience as a therapist . It is based on my PhD thesis ( Casson , 2002 ) ...
... results of the study are based on the opinions of eighteen people . The following description of the characteristics of the participants reveals the diversity of the study . Age and ethnic diversity Age ( at time of entry into the ...
... results , the participants ' opinions of these creative action methods , which are the evidence base from which I am then able to offer the following chapter's guidelines . Finally in Chapter 14 , ' Guidelines for good practice ' , I ...
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 |