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Author:   Ditty Dokter (Hertfordshire Partnership Trust and Roehampton University, UK) ,  Pete Holloway (Kent & Medway Partnership Trust and Roehampton University, UK) ,  Henri Seebohm (Roehampton University and West London Mental Health Trust, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415558518

ISBN 10:   0415558514
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   06 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Holloway, Dokter, Seebohm, Introduction. Part I: Destructiveness and Dramatherapy. Holloway, Seebohm, Dokter, Understandings of Destructiveness. Jones, Creativity and Destructiveness: A Discourse Analysis of Dramatherapists' Accounts of their Work. Dokter, Practice-based Evidence: Dramatherapy and Destructiveness. Part II: Clinical Practice. Ramsden, Joshua, Make Believe Violence, The Ladybird and the Butterfly: Dramatherapy in a Primary School Setting. Zeal, Chaos, Destruction and Abuse: Dramatherapy in a School for Excluded Adolescents. Dokter, Self-harm in Young People’s Psychiatry: Transforming Munch’s Scream. Jackson, Self-harm in Clients with Learning Disabilities: Dramatherapists’ Perceptions and Methodology. Zografou, Dramatherapy and Addiction: Learning to Live with Destructiveness. Seebohm, On Bondage and Liberty: The Art of the Possible in Medium Secure Settings. Thorn, Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice: A Black Woman’s Anger in a Forensic Setting. McAllister, From Transitional Object to Symbol: Spiderman in a Dramatherapy Group with Mentally Disordered Offenders. Holloway, Surviving Suicide: The Book of Life and Death. Part III: Towards an Evaluation of the Evidence Base So Far. Dokter, Holloway, Seebohm, Playing with Thanatos: Bringing Creativity to Destructiveness.

Reviews

This book is a stimulating read, opening the door on the experience of dramatherapy practice in challenging settings and with complex clients. The authors engage with the theme of destructiveness and the therapist's struggle to understand it with compassion and honesty. Anna Chesner, Psychodrama and Group Analytic Psychotherapist, Co-Director London Centre for Psychodrama ...an important book for any psychological therapist working with those who offend -- against themselves or others. a Gwen Adshead, from the Foreword

This book is a stimulating read, opening the door on the experience of dramatherapy practice in challenging settings and with complex clients. The authors engage with the theme of destructiveness and the therapist's struggle to understand it with compassion and honesty. Anna Chesner, Psychodrama and Group Analytic Psychotherapist, Co-Director London Centre for Psychodrama

Author Information

Ditty Dokter is professional lead and head of arts therapies at an NHS foundation trust in adult and older people's psychiatry. She works as Pathway Leader on the MA Dramatherapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and lectures widely, both nationally and internationally. Pete Holloway is a consultant dramatherapist and area lead for a psychological services team within an NHS community mental health setting. He is also a Senior Lecturer on the MA Dramatherapy programme at Roehampton University. Henri Seebohm is Programme Convenor of the MA in Dramatherapy at Roehampton University and Senior Dramatherapist and Supervisor in adult forensic psychiatry for an NHS mental health trust.

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