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Space, Place and Dramatherapy: International Perspectives provides radical, critical and practical insights into the relevance and significance of space and place in dramatherapy practice.
List of contents
Foreword. Preface. Prelude. The Obviousness of Space of Anything But. Part 1: The Built Environment and Scenography in Dramatherapy. Chapter 1: Teachings from Echo. Chapter 2: How Hut-Making in Dramatherapy Created a Therapeutic Play Space. Chapter 3: Space Plays a Leading Role: The Therapeutic Power of the Built Environment and Co-Design Processes in Dramatherapy. Chapter 4: Neutral Mask and Embodied Dreamwork, Spaces of Containment. Part 2: Education and Play Space in Dramatherapy. Chapter 5: Learning and Therapeutic Spaces in Dramatherapy and Education. Chapter 6: Connecting Spaces: Playing to Relate. Chapter 7: Essential Factors Both Practical and Imaginal for Defining the Dramatherapy Play Space in Special Education. Part 3: Ritual, Intersubjective and Spiritual Space. Chapter 8: The Fullness of Emptiness. The Significance of Space and the Usefulness of the Concepts of
Shunya (The Void/Empty Space),
Akasha or
Vyoman (Open Vastness),
Kha (The Enclosed Space) in Hinduism and Buddhism for Dramatherapy Practice Chapter 9: 'Clear the Space. Claim the Space. Sanctify the Space'. Intersubjectivity and Spirituality in Dramatherapy According to Roger Grainger. Chapter 10: Liminality and ritual in Dramatherapy - The Intersubjective Space. Chapter 11: Preparing the Ritual Space: The Transition from Everyday Reality to Dramatic Reality. Postlude. Future Spaces of Dramatherapy
About the author
Eliza Sweeney is a lecturer at the University of Caen, France, and the University of Melbourne, Australia, in art therapy. She is a dramatherapist, scenographer, artist and PhD researcher at the University of Northumbria.
