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
... Judy was watching a nurse carrying 'her baby' (actually a pillow) to hell to be taken care of by the devil, because according to Moreno's dictum out loud: 'A child without a mother is in hell Foreword by Zerka Moreno.
... Judy was watching a nurse carrying 'her baby' (actually a pillow) to hell to be taken care of by the devil, because according to Moreno's dictum out loud: 'A child without a mother is in hell Foreword by Zerka Moreno.
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... mother is in hell anyway.' This psychodramatic shock therapy hit its mark. Judy started to scream as I had done, this time stop-watched by Moreno, who told us not to interfere, and for almost ten minutes. Judy's body relaxed for the ...
... mother is in hell anyway.' This psychodramatic shock therapy hit its mark. Judy started to scream as I had done, this time stop-watched by Moreno, who told us not to interfere, and for almost ten minutes. Judy's body relaxed for the ...
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... mother, John the Baptist, Muhammad, St Francis, Joan of Arc, John Bunyan, St Teresa of Avila and Meister Eckhart, heard voices (Watkins, 1998: 30). These people drew inspiration from their voices which they regarded as profoundly ...
... mother, John the Baptist, Muhammad, St Francis, Joan of Arc, John Bunyan, St Teresa of Avila and Meister Eckhart, heard voices (Watkins, 1998: 30). These people drew inspiration from their voices which they regarded as profoundly ...
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... mother voiced her guilt about past hehaviour, communicated a super-ego standard of 'perfect' parenting from Victorian times and seemed veiled criticism of her own mentally ill mother. Pat's grandfather was a high court judge who ...
... mother voiced her guilt about past hehaviour, communicated a super-ego standard of 'perfect' parenting from Victorian times and seemed veiled criticism of her own mentally ill mother. Pat's grandfather was a high court judge who ...
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... mother nagged at me when l was a kid and I can't stand being nagged at. John asked me something that no one has ever asked me: why do you think these voices are so angry? And all of a sudden l thought, Well my husband's angry all the ...
... mother nagged at me when l was a kid and I can't stand being nagged at. John asked me something that no one has ever asked me: why do you think these voices are so angry? And all of a sudden l thought, Well my husband's angry all the ...
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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