Performing Psychologies - Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind

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.>

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• Authors: Philip Barnard, Nicola Shaughnessy, Nicola (University of Kent Shaughnessy
• Assisted by: Philip Barnard (Editor), Philip (University of Cambridge Barnard (Editor), Philip (University of Cambridge) Barnard (Editor), Barnard Philip (Editor), John Lutterbie (Editor), Nicola Shaughnessy (Editor), Nicola (University of Kent Shaughnessy (Editor)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781474260855
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-6085-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues; Performance and Science: Inter; Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues; Performance and Science: Inter
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy, Theatre Studies, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Neurosciences, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies