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 xii
... heard the voice of God. Showing us the role of God in role reversal he whispered benign, soothing messages. I then took over that whispering voice and the patient listened with his eyes closed and a smile of heavenly bliss on his face ...
... heard the voice of God. Showing us the role of God in role reversal he whispered benign, soothing messages. I then took over that whispering voice and the patient listened with his eyes closed and a smile of heavenly bliss on his face ...
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... heard voices found helpful or not helpful in dramatherapy and psychodrama. I present some of the research findings, though I do not present all the material in the thesis to ensure this book is not overly academic: readers who wish to ...
... heard voices found helpful or not helpful in dramatherapy and psychodrama. I present some of the research findings, though I do not present all the material in the thesis to ensure this book is not overly academic: readers who wish to ...
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... heard the voices of spirits and relayed their messages to audiences. Voices thus became a source of culture. The gods spoke to humankind, giving guidance (Watkins, 1998: 35). Jaynes(1990) in a study of the Iliad and the Odyssey analysed ...
... heard the voices of spirits and relayed their messages to audiences. Voices thus became a source of culture. The gods spoke to humankind, giving guidance (Watkins, 1998: 35). Jaynes(1990) in a study of the Iliad and the Odyssey analysed ...
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... heard voices (Nettle, 2001: 93; Watkins, 1998: 27, 30-31; Fox, 1987: 212). These examples of the inspirational guidance of voice hearing show there are positive aspects to the experience that need not be reduced to pathology. However ...
... heard voices (Nettle, 2001: 93; Watkins, 1998: 27, 30-31; Fox, 1987: 212). These examples of the inspirational guidance of voice hearing show there are positive aspects to the experience that need not be reduced to pathology. However ...
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... heard what she said (James, 2001: 31). She changed his life and the lives of countless others: the result was the Hearing Voices Network, established from 1987, by Dutch and British voice hearers and mental health workers (Romme and ...
... heard what she said (James, 2001: 31). She changed his life and the lives of countless others: the result was the Hearing Voices Network, established from 1987, by Dutch and British voice hearers and mental health workers (Romme and ...
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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