The Play's the Thing: Exploring Text in Drama and TherapyMarina Jenkyns conveys the excitement of working therapeutically with dramatic text though a personal and highly readable analysis of plays from a variety of periods and cultures. Influenced by the theories of Winnicott and Klein she lays bare the dynamics of relationships and plots to show how they can be used to help us understand our own relationships to each other and the world around us. This highly innovative text integrates therapeutic practice and literature in an engaging and challenging book which will hold the attention of a wide audience. This book contains new ideas for dramatherapy practice, theatre directors and teachers. |
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... aspects of psychoanalytic theory, particularly that of object relations, further enhanced my life and my work. The purpose of the book is therefore to share something of how I read and work with dramatic literature. I do not presume to ...
... aspects of psychoanalytic theory, particularly that of object relations, further enhanced my life and my work. The purpose of the book is therefore to share something of how I read and work with dramatic literature. I do not presume to ...
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... aspects of the whole, though at this stage they are polarized. The feelings of rejection by both convicts and officers, equally at the mercy of the hostile land and climatic conditions, are common to both. Here they are all ill-adapted ...
... aspects of the whole, though at this stage they are polarized. The feelings of rejection by both convicts and officers, equally at the mercy of the hostile land and climatic conditions, are common to both. Here they are all ill-adapted ...
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... aspect of her own personality. She can compare herself with the character and in doing so the character can act as a catalyst to her developing thoughts. This is one of the ways in which the taking on of a role functions in dramatherapy ...
... aspect of her own personality. She can compare herself with the character and in doing so the character can act as a catalyst to her developing thoughts. This is one of the ways in which the taking on of a role functions in dramatherapy ...
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... aspects of herself. What do we learn from Mary about the value of being in a role where the words are prescribed? The role provides her with a context, the text with a language in which she can grow, finding her own language, her own ...
... aspects of herself. What do we learn from Mary about the value of being in a role where the words are prescribed? The role provides her with a context, the text with a language in which she can grow, finding her own language, her own ...
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... aspects of the self must therefore be engaged in. Unhelpful defences may be replaced by more healthy, enabling structures. But new life, transformation, can happen only if there is a dying of the old. Where Dabby represents the ...
... aspects of the self must therefore be engaged in. Unhelpful defences may be replaced by more healthy, enabling structures. But new life, transformation, can happen only if there is a dying of the old. Where Dabby represents the ...
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actor aesthetic distance allow Altaaf Alving aspects audience Beatie Beatie’s become beginning Betty Bimal boundaries Bryant Caliban Carol character child client Clive containment context counter-transference create creative Dabby de-roling death depressive position dramatherapy group dramatic structure dramatic text dummy echoes Edward enable enactment space engaged Engstrand experience explore father feelings function group members hold ibid important individual infant introjection Jenny living look Manders Mary Maurya means Melanie Klein metaphor mirror mother move Nora Oswald pain paranoid-schizoid position person play play’s Play’s the Thing possible potential space projective identification Prospero provides Ralph reality rehearsal relation relationship response role Ronnie Roona Safeena Scene sense session sexual Shanta Sideway society speaks splitting stage structure subordinate super-ego Sylvie symbolic theatre therapeutic therapist therapy things transference unconscious Waiting for Godot wall Winnicott woman women words workshop