Dramatherapy Books

New and Published Books

1. Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools

   Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning

   Edited by Lauraine Leigh, Irvine Gersch, Ann Dix, Deborah Haythorne

   Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Dramatherapy and Destructiveness

   Creating the Evidence Base, Playing with Thanatos

   Edited by Ditty Dokter, Pete Holloway, Henri Seebohm

   Dramatherapy uses the healing aspects of drama and theatre as part of the therapeutic process and is increasingly required to supply evidence of its effectiveness. This book aims to provide an evidence base for practice with destructive clients, and raise the profile of dramatherapy as a distinct...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
3. Drama as Therapy Volume 2

   Clinical Work and Research into Practice

   Edited by Phil Jones

   How is dramatherapy practised? What does research reveal about how dramatherapy offers therapeutic change? This book examines the many ways clients and therapists explore the therapeutic possibilities of drama. Whilst the first volume combined theory, practice and research in the field, this second...

   Published March 2nd 2010 by Routledge
4. Dramatherapy and Social Theatre

   Necessary Dialogues

   Edited by Sue Jennings

   Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result. In this book Sue Jennings brings...

   Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
5. Supervision of Dramatherapy

   Edited by Phil Jones, Ditty Dokter

   Series: Supervision in the Arts Therapies

   Supervision of Dramatherapy offers a thorough overview of dramatherapy supervision and the issues that can arise during the supervisory task. Phil Jones and Ditty Dokter bring together experts from the field to examine supervision in a range of contexts with different client groups, including...

   Published November 10th 2008 by Routledge
6. Drama as Therapy Volume 1

   Theory, Practice and Research, 2nd Edition

   By Phil Jones

   This new edition of Drama as Therapy presents a coherent review of the practice and theory of Dramatherapy. With a unique combination of practical guidance, clinical examples and research vignettes this fully revised second edition considers developments in the field over the last decade and...

   Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge
7. Psychodrama

   Advances in Theory and Practice

   Edited by Clark Baim, Jorge Burmeister, Manuela Maciel

   Series: Advancing Theory in Therapy

   Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the theory and practice of psychodrama, integrating different psychodramatic schools of thought. Psychodrama is one of the pioneering approaches of psychotherapy and is practised by thousands of...

   Published June 20th 2007 by Routledge
8. The Quintessential Zerka

   Writings by Zerka Toeman Moreno on Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

   By Zerka T Moreno

   Edited by Toni Horvatin, Edward Schreiber

   The Quintessential Zerka documents the origins and development of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy through the work and innovation of its co-creator, Zerka Toeman Moreno. This comprehensive handbook brings together history, philosophy, methodology and...

   Published April 19th 2006 by Routledge
9. Introduction to Dramatherapy

   Person and Threshold

   By Salvo Pitruzzella

   Introduction to Dramatherapy provides a theoretical framework for the practice of dramatherapy, and examines the relationship between the 'self' and the 'other'; the understanding of which, the author argues, is key to harnessing the full potential of dramatherapy as a healing medium. In Part 1,...

   Published April 14th 2004 by Routledge
10. Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis

    Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People Who Hear Voices

    By John Casson

    Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis explores the use of drama and theatre in the challenging area of working with people who hear voices, focusing especially on survivors of abuse and those diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. In examining the often baffling and frightening world of psychosis...

    Published March 10th 2004 by Routledge