The Love and Marriage of Psychodrama and Drama Therapy 1

From my perspective, this healer is not a father at all but a mother, like Athena, the goddess of wisdom, or Gaia and Isis, both earth goddesses, or like Aphrodite, the goddess of love, or Psyche, the goddess of the soul. [...]drama therapy, a mongrel in itself, has many progenitors. In the Bergama...

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Published inJournal of group psychotherapy, psychodrama and sociometry (2002) Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 33 - 40
Main Author Landy, Robert J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Columbus American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) 01.01.2016
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Actors
Dance
Psychotherapy
Theater
Turkey
Europe
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Summary:From my perspective, this healer is not a father at all but a mother, like Athena, the goddess of wisdom, or Gaia and Isis, both earth goddesses, or like Aphrodite, the goddess of love, or Psyche, the goddess of the soul. [...]drama therapy, a mongrel in itself, has many progenitors. In the Bergama and Greek Aesclepions, there is evidence of ancient seekers of health engaging as actors and audience members in the drama as part of their cure. [...]drama therapy is the child of couch and stage, of art and music and movement, of Freud and Jung and Reich, of body, mind, and soul, of Aesclepion and hospital, of mirror images and mirror neurons, of play and work, of rehearsal and performance. [...]throughout many years, the Bergama congress has featured the work of two psychodramatists, Maurizio Gasseau and Jörg Burmeister, who work in the realm of the imagination and invite participants to engage in an aesthetic process that often obscures the boundaries between classical psychodrama and drama therapy.
ISSN:2161-1947