1st Edition

Dramatherapy Theory and Practice, Volume 3

Edited By Sue Jennings Copyright 1997
    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    The third volume of Dramatherapy: Theory and Practice brings the reader up-to-date with the latest developments in the profession of dramatherapy and tackles key issues in contemporary social relationships. It shows how dramatherapy is evolving its own theory and methodology as well as specific models for supervision and assessment. Dramatherapy is now being used in a broad continuum of care and contributors give many examples of its practice in contexts of prevention, maintenance and cure.
    * Incorporates method, theoretical concepts and latest research
    * Covers major new themes of gender, race and politics
    * 29 international contributors

    I: Developments in theory and method; 1: ‘Knocking at the gate'; 2: Assessing client progress in dramatherapy; 3: The story as a guide to metaphoric processes; 4: The therapeusis of the audience; 5: Personagrams; 6: The mask of self; II: Applied dramatherapy with individuals and groups; 7: Masking and unmasking; 8: “To feel absent from one's voice”; 9: The case of Sam; 10: The tethered goat and the poppy field'; 11: The drum, the mouse and the boy in the glass palace; 12: ‘Sharing my story'; III: Gender issues in supervision and practice; 13: Gender issues in supervision; 14: Playing with the perpetrator; 15: Dramatherapy and violence against women; 16: Jacques and His Master; 17: Different therefore equal?; IV: Dramatherapy, politics and culture; 18: The rainbow bridge and the divided space; 19: Dramatherapy; 20: Making the law – breaking the law; 21: Children of the Troubles; 22: The drama has just begun; 23: The Trinidad Carnival

    Biography

    Sue Jennings