DISCOVERING THE SELF THROUGH DRAMA Book

	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Introducing Sesame	1
1	Discovering the Self	7
2	Beginning with the Body	17
3	Working with Myth and Story	27
4	Jung and the Symbol: Resolution of Conflicting Opposites	34
5	Why Oblique and Why Jung?	39
6	Drama as Therapy: Some Basic Principles	46
7	Marian Lindkvist and Movement with Touch	52
8	The Unique Voice That Lives Inside us All	72
9	Laban and the Language of Movement	78
10	Dance As You've Never Danced Before!	84
11	Child Drama: The Peter Slade Connection	94
12	Ritual: Journeys of the Heart	104
13	Ritual in Sesame	112
14	Circus Skills and Commedia	121
15	The Drama Gave Me Inner Freedom: In Wormwood Scrubs	137
16	The Minotaur in Three Settings: Prison, Acute Psychiatry and with Elderly People in Hospital	140
17	Working with Symbol in the Mental Health Centre	149
18	The Shared Feeling: Sesame in Acute Psychiatry	157
19	Dramatherapy in Forensic Psychiatry	167
20	To Act or Not To Act? In the Secure Unit	172
21	Moving Through a Block in Psychotherapy	175
22	A Place Called Sesame: Dramatherapy with Disturbed Children	181
23	Children Without Words: Sesame in Romania	198
24	Poetry in Motion: Drama and Movement Therapy with People with Learning Disabilities	209
25	Sharing the Space Inside: One-to-One Work with People with Profound Learning Disabilities	222
26	Baba Yaga and Vasalisa: Myth Work With Challenging Behaviour	232
27	Beginning to Work with the Elderly	241
28	Making the Present Come Alive	244
29	The Story of Roundabout: Creation of a Group Practice	251
30	Smoke and Mirrors	260
	The Contributors	268
	Subject Index	272
	Author Index	276