Overview

Performing Psychologies offers new perspectives on arts and health, focussing on the different ways in which performance interacting with psychology can enhance understanding of the mind. The book challenges stereotypes of disability, madness and creativity, addressing a range of conditions (autism, dementia and schizophrenia) and performance practices including staged productions and applied work in custodial, health and community settings. Featuring case studies ranging from Hamlet to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the pioneering work of companies such as Spare Tyre and Ridiculusmus, and embracing dance and music as well as theatre and drama, the volume offers new perspectives on the dynamic interactions between performance, psychology and states of mind. It contains contributions from psychologists, performance scholars, therapists and healthcare professionals, who offer multiple perspectives on working through performance-based media. Presenting a richly interdisciplinary and collaborative investigation of the arts in practice, this volume opens up new ways of thinking about the performance of psychologies, and about how psychologies perform.

Full Product Details

Author:   Prof Nicola Shaughnessy (University of Kent, UK) ,  Philip Barnard (University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781474260855

ISBN 10:   1474260853
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   07 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part 1 Contexts 1 Changing Minds and Minding the Gap: Interactions between Arts and Science Nicola Shaughnessy and Philip Barnard 2 Imagining An/Other: Histories, Theories and Theatres of Mind through the Mirrors of Hamlet Nicola Shaughnessy 3 Paying Attention to Meanings in the Psychological Sciences and the Performing Arts, Philip Barnard Part 2 Interdisciplinary Perspectives 4 Evaluating Atypical Imagination and Cognition: Working in the Arts/Science Interspace, Ilona Roth 5 The Wind and the Rain: Facing Dementia in Lear/Cordelia and The Garden Robert Shaughnessy 6 ‘Her painful legs joined in the conversation’ Dramatherapy and the Space Before and Beyond the Talking Cure Emma Brodzinsky Part 3 Practices and Responses 7 Where is her Mind? Space, Feminism and Mental Illness in Plays by Sarah Daniels and Sarah Kane Christopher Dingwall-Jones A Response Incomprehensibility and Mutual Recovery Paul Crawford 8 A Cry Without an Echo: Consciousness, Creativity and the Healing work of the Arts Ellen W. Kaplan A Response Artistic Healing and the Overcoming of Rehabilitation Paradigms Fabiola Camuti 9 Autism and Affect in Post-Realist Theatre, Marla Carlson A Response Scientific Truth, Artistic Licence, Fiction and Reality Thalia R Goldstein Part 4 Changing Minds 10 Reflections on The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland: A conversation between David Woods and Jon Haynes of Ridiculusmus with commentary by Richard Talbot. 11 Re: Creating Psychiatry through Participatory Performance: Playing On Theatre and Mental Health Acts Nicola Shaughnessy, Jim Pope, Phil Osment and Hugh Grant-Peterkin Epilogue: Nicola Shaughnessy Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

With each chapter presenting various case studies in relation to topics such as madness, autism, dementia, trauma, and psychotherapy, this collection excels at presenting a wide range of approaches to reading performance in relation to how the mind makes meaning out of lived experience, focusing on marginalized psychological states in relation to performance, therapy, and applied theatre. * Theatre Journal *

Author Information

Dr Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. Dr Philip Barnard worked for the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge from 1972 to 2011.

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