The play's the thing : exploring text in drama and therapy /

Marina Jenkyns conveys the excitement of working therapeutically with dramatic text though a personal and highly readable analysis of plays from a variety of periods and cultures. Influenced by the theories of Winnicott and Klein she lays bare the dynamics of relationships and plots to show how they...

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Main Author: Jenkyns, Marina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Dramatherapy: Through the Lens of the Play
  • 2. Playing Where Two Worlds Meet
  • 3. Theory Into Practice: Means and Methods
  • 4. Beginning: Roots / Arnold Wesker
  • 5. Past Into Present
  • The Wider Context: Cloud Nine / Caryl Churchill
  • 6. 'That Way Madness Lies': Thursday's Child / Daphne Thomas
  • 7. Oppression of Taboo: Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen
  • 8. Walls Within Walls
  • Society, Family and the Individual: A Shaft of Sunlight / Abhijat Joshi
  • 9. Death and Acceptance: Riders to the Sea / J.M. Synge
  • 10. Epilogue.