| Introduction to Dramatherapy: Theatre and Healing - Ariadne's Ball of Thread Contributor(s): Jennings, Sue (Author) |
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ISBN: 1853021156 ISBN-13: 9781853021152 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: This accessible and comprehensive book shows the importance of theater as a healing experience. The book explains the basic theory and practice of dramatherapy, exploring the subject with an awareness of the place of dramatic expression as a natural part of life. It shows how dramatherapy is of relevance to everyone, exploring the use of drama in different life stages and during different experiences. The drama of life is considered with its significance of roles and scenes, stories and rituals, and the balance of the individual with the group. A clear and thorough investigation of the nature and uses of drama, theater, and dramatherapy is presented as well as diagnostic charts, observation charts, and charts for dramatic history taking. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Monologues & Scenes - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Group - Psychology | Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| LCCN: 98114033 |
| Series: Art Therapies |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.2" W x 9.04" (0.65 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dramatherapy is now well-established and widely used in a variety of settings with diverse groups of people. In this book, Sue Jennings presents a 'healing theatre' approach to dramatherapy, showing how it is part of our total cultural experience of theatre art, and how it can be used to find a bearable means of facing the beast at the heart of the labyrinth. Challenging received views from psychology and psychotherapy on the theoretical base of dramatherapy, she argues that the dramatic development of the individual is a primary developmental process, which is influential from conception and is shaped by cultural context. She maintains that by participating in drama and theatre as well as exploring our 'dramatic' past, a new pathway to self-knowledge and fulfilment is opened as a viable alternative to conventional practice. Illustrated with many examples, the book also includes exercises and questionnaires which can be used in practice, with students, or for self-study, illuminating the relationship between theatre and healing, and the theatrical basis of dramatherapy. |