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Developmental Approaches in Drama Therapy

Drama therapy, like other creative arts therapies, has attracted a number of different conceptual frameworks which have been used to organize complex clinical material and to provide theoretical coherence to relatively uncharted psychological territory. These frameworks, nearly all imported from outside the creative arts themselves, include psychoanalytic theory, gestalt therapy, developmental ...

Creative Therapy and Creative Drama

4^ .our view "Creative Therapy" never can be a matter of "creative techbe nulVes"Every technique can be used creatively, and every technique can s0rJP?^ed. Let us take an example. The technique of fingerpainting is for and Sf PeoP'e refreshing, innovating, stimulating and capable of evoking a new Qnu, i Vourable development. However, the horn over for a number of years. The reason for this is c...

You Validate Me , You like Me , You ’ Re Fun , You

The proposition that similarity breeds attraction has received longstanding theoretical and empirical support. Still, the processes that guide this effect remain relatively unexamined. In this study, with a large sample of college students, we tested four variables proposed in prior literature to theoretically account for the similarity-liking link: consensual validation, certainty of being lik...

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Psychodrama and Drama Therapy : a Comparison

In therapy, as in all human activity, drama is both inevitable and necessary. It is inevitable because, during the human life-cycle, people are constantly confronted with dramatic changes and it is necessary because all transitions occur as a result of more or less dramatic experiences-in-action. Thus, it is not surprising that drama has been used for centuries both within the theatre and in va...