Deadly Therapy: Lessons in Liveliness from Theater and Performance Theory

by Michael Karson

Book Overview

Deadly Therapy explores the implications of a dramaturgical approach to the therapy encounter and uses lessons from the theater to illustrate how to enliven psychotherapy. Every psychotherapy is an interpersonal system in which power and privilege lead to self-serving rules and categories that marginalize aspects of the system that are out of step with the "party line." Performance theory-encompassing audience engagement, dramaturgy, gender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765704455
• ISBN13: 9780765704450
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"