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Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind
Contributor(s): Lutterbie, John (Editor), Barnard, Philip (Editor), Shaughnessy, Nicola (Editor)
ISBN: 1474260853     ISBN-13: 9781474260855
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE:   $128.70  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism
- Psychology | Creative Ability
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.95 lbs) 264 pages
 
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Performing Psychologies offers new perspectives on arts and health, focussing on the different ways in which performance interacting with psychology can enhance understanding of the mind. The book challenges stereotypes of disability, madness and creativity, addressing a range of conditions (autism, dementia and schizophrenia) and performance practices including staged productions and applied work in custodial, health and community settings.

Featuring case studies ranging from Hamlet to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the pioneering work of companies such as Spare Tyre and Ridiculusmus, and embracing dance and music as well as theatre and drama, the volume offers new perspectives on the dynamic interactions between performance, psychology and states of mind. It contains contributions from psychologists, performance scholars, therapists and healthcare professionals, who offer multiple perspectives on working through performance-based media.

Presenting a richly interdisciplinary and collaborative investigation of the arts in practice, this volume opens up new ways of thinking about the performance of psychologies, and about how psychologies perform.

Contributor Bio(s): Shaughnessy, Nicola: -

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She is Director of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism.'
She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008).

Lutterbie, John: - Professor John Lutterbie is Chair of the Departments of Art and of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University, USA, and is on the board of directors of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.