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The self in performance : autobiographical, self-revelatory, and autoethnographic forms of therapeutic theatre / Susana Pendzik, Renée Emunah, David Read Johnson, editors.

This book is the first to examine the performance of autobiographical material as a theatrical form, a research subject, and a therapeutic method. Contextualizing personal performance within psychological and theatrical paradigms, the book identifies and explores core concepts, such as the function...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Pendzik, Susana (Editor), Emunah, Renee (Editor), Johnson, David Read (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:
Drama > Therapeutic use.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The Self In Performance; Susana Pendzik, Renee Emunah, and David Read Johnson
  • Part I. Influences and Concepts
  • Chapter 2. Influences of Experimental Theatre on the Emergence Of Self-Revelatory Performance; Stephen Snow
  • Chapter 3. From Behind the Scenes to Facing an Audience in Self- Revelatory Performance; Renee Emunah
  • Chapter 5. Surprise and Otherness in Self-Revelatory Performance; David Read Johnson
  • Chapter 6. Relational Aesthetics in the Performance of Personal Story; Nisha Sajnani
  • Chapter 7. Intersubjectivity in Autobiographical Performance in Dramatherapy; Jean-Francois Jacques
  • Part II. Applications and Approaches
  • Chapter 8. Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance as Individual Therapy; Armand Volkas
  • Chapter 9. Embodied Life-Stories; Sheila Rubin
  • Chapter 10. Restoried Script Performance; Pam Dunne
  • Chapter 11. The Performative; Gideon Zehavi
  • Chapter 12. Heuristic Methodology in Arts-Based Inquiry of Autobiographcial Therapeutic Performance; Drew Bird
  • Chapter 13. A Retrospective Study of Autobiographical Performance During Dramatherapy Training; Ditty Dokter and Alida Gersie
  • Chapter 14. Personal Theatre and Pedagogy; Anna Seymour
  • Chapter 15. Autobiographical Therapeutic Theatre With Older People With Dementia; Dovrat Harel
  • Chapter 16. The Unheard Stories Of Those Forgotten Behind Bars In Lebanon; Zeina Daccache
  • Chapter 17. Reflections On Terrorists Of The Heart: A Couple's Performance On Loss And Acceptance; Jules Dorey Richmond and David Richmond
  • Chapter 18. The Play As Client; Maria Hodermarska, Prentiss Benjamin, and Stephanie Omens.

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