Drama and Healing: The Roots of Drama Therapy

by Roger Grainger and Grainger R

The author shows how drama therapy draws on both drama and ritual. He argues that personal construct theory provides a hermeneutically useful approach to the study of drama therapy. He shows that drama therapy itself is an effective treatment for depression and schizophrenia, having a measurable effect on thought disorder; he thus tries to be as definite as possible about a subject which resists the 'scientific' apporach, and he is concerned not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185302337X
• ISBN13: 9781853023378
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"