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Dramatic Psychological Storytelling

Using the Expressive Arts and Psychotheatrics

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Rob Allen
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  2. Nina Krebs
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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Conceptual Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Destination or Journey

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 3-9

    3. Intersubjective Meaning

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 10-19

    4. Expressive Arts

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 20-30

    5. Dramatic Psychological Storytelling

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 31-41

  3. The Seven Expressive Arts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Narrative

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 45-53

    3. Film

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 54-62

    4. Theatre

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 63-72

    5. Music

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 73-81

    6. Visual Art

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 82-92

    7. Dance and Kinaesthetics

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 93-101

    8. Ritual and Epic

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 102-116

  4. Psychotheatrics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Imaginal Psychotheatrics

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 119-130

    3. Playwright Psychotheatrics

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 131-141

    4. Montage Psychotheatrics

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 142-154

  5. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Clinical and Counselling

      • Rob Allen, Nina Krebs
      Pages 157-175
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About this book

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.

About the authors

ROB 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).

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