Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People Who Hear VoicesRoutledge, 2004 M03 11 - 304 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.Illustrated by case histories and examples of practice, this book provides a description and analysis of voice hearing. Chapters cover areas including: * historical perspectives on psychosis and hearing voices * group psychodrama * dramatherapy with individuals. Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis demonstrates how creative action 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. |
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Page 16
... emotional pain, a time when reality may have seemed almost too difficult to bear (Watkins, 1998; Leudar and Thomas, 2000). Romme and Escher's (1996: 144) research identified certain categories of life influences related to the onset of ...
... emotional pain, a time when reality may have seemed almost too difficult to bear (Watkins, 1998; Leudar and Thomas, 2000). Romme and Escher's (1996: 144) research identified certain categories of life influences related to the onset of ...
Page 20
... emotion expressed in families. This is in line with previous research (Romme and Escher, 1993; Martindale et al., 2000). Furthermore, as if in a feedback loop, the voices apparently add to stress levels: Jimmy: Voices . . . make me feel ...
... emotion expressed in families. This is in line with previous research (Romme and Escher, 1993; Martindale et al., 2000). Furthermore, as if in a feedback loop, the voices apparently add to stress levels: Jimmy: Voices . . . make me feel ...
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... emotionally toned and highly personalised images ... the subjects in these experiments may show any or virtually all of the 'symptoms' which characterise mentally ill patients such as schizophrenics. (Haggard, 1964:435) In these ...
... emotionally toned and highly personalised images ... the subjects in these experiments may show any or virtually all of the 'symptoms' which characterise mentally ill patients such as schizophrenics. (Haggard, 1964:435) In these ...
Page 29
... emotionally abusive environment: children might withdraw for self-preservation (although they might also be sent to their room in preparation for sexual or physical abuse so that aloneness would be mixed with dread). Self-imposed ...
... emotionally abusive environment: children might withdraw for self-preservation (although they might also be sent to their room in preparation for sexual or physical abuse so that aloneness would be mixed with dread). Self-imposed ...
Page 30
... emotional deprivation): My early memories are of a surreal life amongst dereliction (slum clearance) and fantasy ... (I) remember sending psychic message at the age of 16 to a girl l fancied whilst masturbating. Listening to voices ...
... emotional deprivation): My early memories are of a surreal life amongst dereliction (slum clearance) and fantasy ... (I) remember sending psychic message at the age of 16 to a girl l fancied whilst masturbating. Listening to voices ...
Contents
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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 |
References | 261 |
Author index | 275 |
Subject index | 279 |
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