The Expressive Use of Masks Across Cultures and Healing Arts [Paperback]

Part 1. Cultural Masks??1. Masks: Rites, Rituals, and Transformations? 2. I Contain Multitudes: Writing, Poetic Masks and Parts of Self? 3. The Leelah Play: Avatar as Mask in Trauma-Informed Dramatherapy? 4. A Transformative Journey of Masks in Drama Therapy: Reversing the Sequence in Lecoq's Physical Theatre Pedagogy? 5. Integrating Voice Movement Therapy and Mask Work and Why it Works??Part 2. Masks at Play??6. The Role of Mask in Cultivating Imagination and the Expression of PlayFULLness'? 7. Mask Work: Increasing Imagination and Developing Self Awareness in Children: Through a False Face One Finds a True Face? 8. Using Neutral Masks with Adolescents? 9. Victim Empathy: Unmasking Vulnerability??Part 3. Wearing a Mask??10. Metaphors in the Mask: A Process of Exploring Personal and Professional Identities? 11. Building Trust Through Mask Making in East and West Jerusalem: Developing and Exposing, Disguising and Divulging Clinically and in Phototherapy Training? 12. Encountering the Mask with Undergraduate Expressive Therapies Students: Engaging Ritual, Dialogue, and Reflection? 13. Working with Masks in Narradrama? 14. Sexing the Mask: Explorations in Mask Making for Gender and Sexuality??Part 4.?Healing the Wounds??15. Super Art Therapy? 16. Painting Masks, Reflecting on Gaps: Student Veterans Explore Internal and External Realities During an Art Therapy Group? 17. Healing the Wounds of War? 18. Faces Behind the Masks in Times of War: First Aid of the Soul in Ukraine? 19. Working with Masks in Moscow: A Trauma-Informed Group Narradrama Practice??Part 5.?From Protection to Healing??20. Mask Masking as a Featured Process in a Hospital-Based Open Studio? 21. The Transformation of a Radiation Mask? 22. The Avatar: Masks of Hope and Healing? 23. The Exploration of Using a Kintsugi-Inspired Mask Making Process in Addictive Behaviolc-