1st Edition

Dramatherapy and Psychiatry

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

As part of the overall growing interest in the rehabilitation of people with mental illness in the 1980s, therapy through drama was being seen increasingly as a significant aspect of therapeutic programmes. While the subject of remedial drama for people with disabilities was reasonably well documented, originally published in 1983, this was the first book to address the topic applied to... Read more

Acknowledgements.  1. What is Dramatherapy?  2. Games  3. The Elderly  4. Schizophrenia  5. Personality Disorders  6. Rehabilitation  7. Role Play  8. Social Skills  9. Theatre  10. Reminiscence Gordon E. Langley  11. Audio-visual Aids  12. Looking Both Ways: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Dramatherapy Gordon E. Langley  13. The Patient, the Therapist and the Goal Gordon E. Langley  14. The Role of the Dramatherapist  15. Some Other Considerations.  Appendix 1: Some Useful Games.  Appendix 2: Some Useful Music.  Appendix 3: Some Useful Addresses.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Dorothy M. Langley, Gordon E. Langley