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This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways, which have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an 'Age of Interruption' and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and discernment in personal, professional and cultural contexts.
List of contents
List of contributors
Introduction by Richard Hougham and Bryn Jones
Chapter 1: Imagination and Participation by Will Pritchard
Chapter 2: Image of the Mind’s Eye by Alanah Garrard
Chapter 3: The Shakkei of Dramatherapy by Bryn Jones
Chapter 4: Encounter and Engagement with Patriarchy by Pallavi Chander
Chapter 5: Myth Interrupting by Richard Hougham
Chapter 6: This Coming Guest by David Guy
Chapter 7: Dreamdance by Aleka Loutsis
Chapter 8: Dramatherapy and Greek Traditional Shadow Puppetry by Theodoros Kostidakis
Chapter 9: Intuition: Interrupter or Interrupted? by Rachel Porter
Chapter 10: Disrupted Narratives by Daniel Stolfi
Chapter 11: The Lived Experience of Interruption by Emma Reicher
Chapter 12: Ghosts by Holly McCulloch
Chapter 13: Sesame Folklore by Adam Atlasi, Kathleen Blades and Nicole Wardell
Index
About the author
Richard Hougham is a Dramatherapist and Principal Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. He is Chair of the European Consortium of Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE).
Bryn Jones is a Dramatherapist and Supervisor. He teaches drama on the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. His current clinical practice includes working with adults on an addiction therapy programme and for a bereavement service.
Summary
This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways, which have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an ‘Age of Interruption’ and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and discernment in personal, professional and cultural contexts.
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‘The authors suggest that in the arts the unplanned or the interruptive can be the most arresting moment. They explore this hypothesis through examples presented by experienced dramatherapists, and through reference to significant writers, such as Jung and Levinas. The result is an intriguing, creative and original book that considers the causes and roots of interruptions in different contexts. A timely book, reflective, well-constructed and offering the reader the opportunity to consider in a new way the role of interruption in our daily lives.’ Diane Waller, Emeritus Professor of Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths University of London
'Among the most interesting of edited books are those offering a specific theme that contributors, like jazz musicians, riff on, explore, and expand. This prescient volume weaves ancient and modern thought to capture drama therapy’s potential for addressing the current moment, including reflections on living (and working) through a pandemic and welcome interrogations of therapeutic dogma. Readers will find grounding reminders and disruptively fresh ideas—a tension we need as we contemplate new horizons of practice.' Craig Haen, Ph.D., Private Practitioner and Co-Founder of the Kint Institute
