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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... express their opinions. In the second period of the research participants were interviewed by research assistants before, during and at the end of therapy to ascertain their opinions as to what was helpful or not helpful in dramatherapy ...
... express their opinions. In the second period of the research participants were interviewed by research assistants before, during and at the end of therapy to ascertain their opinions as to what was helpful or not helpful in dramatherapy ...
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... express that, they're like thoughts . . . critical and referring to past experiences. Tina said that after her second marriage to a man who was domineering, I stopped having my own thoughts and kept my thoughts to myself. I've lost part ...
... express that, they're like thoughts . . . critical and referring to past experiences. Tina said that after her second marriage to a man who was domineering, I stopped having my own thoughts and kept my thoughts to myself. I've lost part ...
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... express her need for contact at a safe distance and a wish that people could know, without her stating, her needs. Speaking of her isolation she said: it was painful because people couldn't read my thoughts. When, as a small child, she ...
... express her need for contact at a safe distance and a wish that people could know, without her stating, her needs. Speaking of her isolation she said: it was painful because people couldn't read my thoughts. When, as a small child, she ...
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... express what happened in their mother's life before expressing what has happened in their own' (Schutzenherger. 1998: 32). Of the twenty-one participants in the study, ten had mothers with mental health problems; one person had both ...
... express what happened in their mother's life before expressing what has happened in their own' (Schutzenherger. 1998: 32). Of the twenty-one participants in the study, ten had mothers with mental health problems; one person had both ...
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... express and exacerbate his loneliness. 'Eighty per cent said being alone worsened their hallucinations' (Nayani and David, 1996: 180). Many had had experiences of abandonment and rejection, deprivation and neglect. Professionals ...
... express and exacerbate his loneliness. 'Eighty per cent said being alone worsened their hallucinations' (Nayani and David, 1996: 180). Many had had experiences of abandonment and rejection, deprivation and neglect. Professionals ...
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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