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Shakespeare as prompter : the amending imagination and the therapeutic process

The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision.
Print Book, English, 1994
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 1994
xxvi, 454 pages ; 24 cm
9781853021596, 9781853021589, 1853021598, 185302158X
1023285890
Foreword by Adrian Noble. Foreword by Ismod Rosen. I. Prologue. 1. A Prompting Paradigm. 2. Prompting Possibilities. 3. The Frame of Things. II. Shakespeare as Prompter in Therapeutic Encounters. Introduction. 1. Narrative Failure. 2. The Prompting Process. 3. Emphasis, Rhythm and Cadence. 4. Language. 5. Action. III. Shakespeare's Paraclinical Precision Compromise With Chaos. Introduction. 1. Time. 2. Depth. 3. Mutuality. 4. Mind. 5. Body. 6. Mind and Body: Sexuality. IV. Theatres of Operation. Introduction. 1. Projective Possibilities. 2. Clinical Compression, Subtext and Life-Sentence. 3. Forensic Psychotherapy as Paradigm. 4. Madness. 5. Clinical Phenomenology and Shakespeare. Epilogue: The Amending Imagination. References. Index.