Dramatic Psychological Storytelling: Using the Expressive Arts and Psychotheatrics [Hardcover]

This book presents a seven-step model for insight and change using the action method, Psychotheatrics, which uses the expressive arts to transform the storytelling experience into a phenomenological framework for depicting challenges, strategies and outcomes resulting in the dynamic illustration of inter-subjective meaning.Preface PART I: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS Destination or Journey? Intersubjective Meaning Expressive Arts Dramatic Psychological Storytelling Model PART II: THE SEVEN EXPRESSIVE ARTS Narrative Film Theatre Music Visual Art Dance and Kinaesthetics Ritual and Epic PART III: PSYCHOTHEATRICS Imaginal Playwright Montage PART IV: APPLICATIONS Clinical and Counselling Human Resources Education and Awareness Facilitator Skills BibliographyROB ALLEN was a Lecturer in Organizational and Forensic Psychology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He authored a number of journal articles and books in Industrial/Organizational and Management Psychology. Rob Allen passed away after a short illness in December 2006.

NINA KREBS has worked as a psychotherapist and consultant for three decades, and is author of Changing Woman Changing Work (1993) and Edgewalkers: Defusing Cultural Boundaries on the New Global Frontier (1999).