Introduction to Dramatherapy: Theatre and Healing, Ariadne's Ball of ThreadDramatherapy 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. |
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... things that we know and the things that are new and this forms the basis of much of our life and theatre experience . I have referred to it as the ' ritual and risk ' of our structuring of life experiences . Even the writing of this ...
... thing that can be changed is our current attitude to our past , especially if it involves burdens of guilt and shame . There are however , some things in our life that we do need to feel guilt and shame about ; all of us have done things ...
... things such as eating , talking , revising , homework and so on , means that it has a closeness in its very situation that creates an intimacy . On the other hand in theatre you have to make a journey , sometimes for a long time ...
Contents
Foreword by Clare Higgins | 9 |
Tributes and Challenges | 17 |
Why Drama and Dramatherapy? | 31 |
Copyright | |
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