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Dramatherapy

The Nature of Interruption

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This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an ‘age of interruption’ and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and discernment in personal, professional and cultural contexts.

The writing gathers fresh ideas on how to conceptualise and utilise interruptions artistically, socially and politically. Individual chapters destabilise traditional conceptions of verbal and behavioural models of psychotherapy and offer a new vision based in the arts and philosophy. There are examples of interruption in practice contexts, augmented by extracts from case studies and clinical vignettes. The book is not a sequential narrative – rather a bricolage of ideas, which create intersections between aesthetics, language and the imagination. New and international voices in dramatherapy emerge to generate a radical immanence; from Greek shadow puppetry to the Japanese horticultural practice of Shakkei; from the appearance of ‘ghosts’ in the consulting room to images in the third space of the therapeutic encounter, interruptions are reckoned with as relevant and generative.

This book will be of interest to students, arts therapists, scholars and practitioners, who are concerned with the nature of interruption and how dramatherapy can offer a means of active engagement.

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Year Published:
2021
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
Editors:
Hougham, Richard|Jones, Bryn (University of London, UK)
ISBN:
9780367487577
Number of Pages:
194
Publication Date:
06/08/2021
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Place of Publication:
London
Illustrations Note:
6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Language:
English
SKU:
9780367487577

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