Essays in Drama Therapy

Biography - The Making of a Drama Therapist; Training the Drama Therapist - A Four-Part Model; The Use of Distancing in Drama Therapy; Conceptual and Methodological Issues of Research in Drama Therapy; Puppets, Dolls, Objects, Masks and Make-Up; The Image of the Mask - Implications for Theatre and Therapy; My Life as Theatre; One-on-One - The Role of the Drama Therapist as Private Practitioner; The Concept of Role in Drama Therapy; Taxonomy of Roles - A Blueprint for the Possibilities of Being; A Research Agenda for the Creative Arts Therapies; The Child, the Dreamer, the Artist and the Fool; Three Scenarios for the Future of Drama Therapy; Through the Looking Glass Reflections on the Roles Taken and Played by Infants and Children; A Short-Term Model of Drama Therapy Through the Role Method; The Double Life - A Case of Bipolar Disorder; Collaboration and Isolation in the Creative Arts Therapies - The Implications of Crossing Borders; A Peerless Symmetry - The Arts in Psychotherapy.

...a fascinating and often intimate account. Landy is honest and direct, continually posing questions, and not afraid to expose his own mistakes. He is thus a very good teacher.