Dramatherapy

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 öer 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 öer a means of active engagement.

Richard Hougham is a Dramatherapist and Principal Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is Chair of the European Consortium of Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE). Bryn Jones is a Dramatherapist and Supervisor. He teaches drama on the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. His current clinical practice includes working with adults on an addiction therapy programme and for a bereavement service.

List of contributors Introduction by Richard Hougham and Bryn Jones Chapter 1: Imagination and Participation by Will Pritchard Chapter 2: Image of the Mind's Eye by Alanah Garrard Chapter 3: The Shakkei of Dramatherapy by Bryn Jones Chapter 4: Encounter and Engagement with Patriarchy by Pallavi Chander Chapter 5: Myth Interrupting by Richard Hougham Chapter 6: This Coming Guest by David Guy Chapter 7: Dreamdance by Aleka Loutsis Chapter 8: Dramatherapy and Greek Traditional Shadow Puppetry by Theodoros Kostidakis Chapter 9: Intuition: Interrupter or Interrupted? by Rachel Porter Chapter 10: Disrupted Narratives by Daniel Stolfi Chapter 11: The Lived Experience of Interruption by Emma Reicher Chapter 12: Ghosts by Holly McCulloch Chapter 13: Sesame Folklore by Adam Atlasi, Kathleen Blades and Nicole Wardell Index