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Imagination, Identification and Catharsis in Theatre and Therapy

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A study examining the underlying theatrical underpinning of dramatherapy, which is firmly based on an understanding of processes which are fundamentally theatrical: imagination, identification and catharsis. The text approaches the subject systematically, arguing that the hidden psychological mechanisms which make theatre work are the same as those that operate in dramatherapy. The authors assert that it is the theatricality of dramatherapy which makes it healing.
As if and identification; metaphor - the artistic use of as if; suspending disbelief; role; catharsis and as if; image and archetype - Aristotle and Artaud; as if and healing; dramatherapy; drama and change.
...this is a celebration of the power of theatre to move and heal us and to present to us the world of archetypal imagery in ways that enable us to both identify and distance ourselves. In this thesis, therapy is a special case of ritual, the whole project being one of achieving and managing transitions between worlds. A valuable addition to the literature.
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