Deadly Therapy: Lessons in Liveliness from Theater and Performance Theory - Hardcover

Karson, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765704455 ISBN 13: 9780765704450

Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2008

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Book by Karson Michael

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Michael Karson provides a fresh way of looking at psychotherapy and theater, with lessons for each. The emphasis on 'lively theater' speaks to both the actor and the therapist within me, permiting me a new sense of integration. The theater metaphor offers a visualization of the different levels of conceptualizing psychotherapy that is clear and understandable. -- Roy W. Jarnecke, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologist, Behavioral Healthcare of Fredericksburg; Board of Directors, Stage Door Productions, Fredericksb Warning: this book may induce anxiety in therapists grown accustomed to rigid how-to manuals. In Deadly Therapy, Michael Karson parallels theatre's tradition of questioning political power structures by grappling with contemporary psychological assumptions about the client-therapist relationship, gender and multicultural influences, and the truth of authenticity, among other issues at the crux of psychotherapy. Scarcely should therapists put down this critical treatise without experiencing a deeply personal challenge: to listen by attending to nuance, question self-inflexibility, be open to diversified language and approach, and, therein, to enliven as if on stage the immediate moment of therapeutic space. -- Audrey K. Miller PhD, assistant professor of psychology, Sam Houston State University

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Deadly Therapy explores the implications of a dramaturgical approach to the therapy encounter and uses lessons from the theater to illustrate how to enliven psychotherapy. Every psychotherapy is an interpersonal system in which power and privilege lead to self-serving rules and categories that marginalize aspects of the system that are out of step with the "party line." Performance theory-encompassing audience engagement, dramaturgy, gender studies, power and privilege dynamics, critical thinking, and multiculturalism-has much to teach about subverting party lines and empowering the stigmatized and voiceless aspects of therapy and supervisory systems.

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• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0765704455
• ISBN 13: 9780765704450
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248