Dramatherapy

<p>This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that 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.</p><p>The writing gathers fresh ideas on how to conceptualise and utilise interruptions artistically socially and politically. Individual chapters destabilise traditional conceptions of verbal and behavioural models of psychotherapy and offer a new vision based in the arts and philosophy. There are examples of interruption in practice contexts augmented by extracts from case studies and clinical vignettes. The book is not a sequential narrative – rather a bricolage of ideas which create intersections between aesthetics language and the imagination. New and international voices in dramatherapy emerge to generate a radical immanence; from Greek shadow puppetry to the Japanese horticultural practice of Shakkei; from the appearance of ‘ghosts’ in the consulting room to images in the third space of the therapeutic encounter interruptions are reckoned with as relevant and generative.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students arts therapists scholars and practitioners who are concerned with the nature of interruption and how dramatherapy can offer a means of active engagement.</p>