Introduction
Part I: Setting the scene
Chapter 1: Framing creativity
Anna Chesner
Chapter 2: Role theory and role analysis: the bedrock of one-to-one psychodramatic work
Jinnie Jefferies
Chapter 3: Concretisation and playing with perspective
Anna Chesner
Chapter 4: Working with role
Anna Chesner
Chapter 5: Working with addictions: the addictions compass and intergenerational action genogram
Anna Chesner
Chapter 6: Psychodramatic dream work
Anna Chesner
Part II: Case Studies: the method in action
Chapter 7: Understanding the child’s voice: a systemic approach to one-to-one psychodrama psychotherapy
Paula Davies
Chapter 8: Our deepest pain: working with shame in individual psychodrama psychotherapy
Anna Napier
Chapter 9: Working with grief and loss
Lydia Mak
Chapter 10: Working psychodramatically with anxiety
Virginie Boury
Chapter 11: One-to-one psychodrama with eating disorders
Eva Koumpli
Chapter 12: Lucy and her secret inner world
Esther Tang
Chapter 13: A brief one-to-one session using role analysis and role theory in a corporate organisation
Maxine Daniels
Anna Chesner is a UK Council for Psychotherapy-registered psychodrama and group analytic psychotherapist and creative supervisor. She has trained arts therapists, integrative counsellors and psychotherapists, and is Co-Director of the London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy. She has written extensively on dramatherapy, psychodrama psychotherapy and creative supervision.
"Anna Chesner and her colleagues have created a dynamic, lucid and
far-reaching presentation of one-to-one psychodrama stemming from
decades of innovative work at the London Centre for Psychodrama.
The book is wonderfully reader-friendly and the illustrations are
very special in terms of both creativity and utility. Many of the
perspectives and practices featured here are also likely to be of
interest to psychotherapists and counsellors who do not (yet) use
psychodrama as an element within their clinical approach. I expect
a standing ovation from within the field of psychodrama itself." -
Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of
Essex, UK"This book is an exciting, generous and much-needed
contribution to the field of psychodrama psychotherapy – essential
reading for practitioners and students. It shows how healing and
richly creative one-to-one psychodrama psychotherapy can be. Anna
Chesner has brought together a group of international authors who
range from the most experienced to the newly minted; all of them
offer fresh ideas drawn from front-line one-to-one practice. The
ideas are intellectually far-reaching and bold, and the case
studies are empathic, humane and deeply rooted in theory and
practice wisdom. Read this book and be inspired to develop your
one-to-one practice to the next level." - Dr Clark Baim, Senior
Trainer in Psychodrama Psychotherapy (UKCP, BPA), Honorary
President of the British Psychodrama Association, Director of the
Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama, UK"This is a remarkable book.
It takes us on a guided journey through the application of
psychodrama in the one-to-one therapeutic context. Theory appears
in measurable doses without diverting the main path. We pass
through several examples of practice and careful explanations show
us the reason that various decisions are made. Techniques of
doubling, role reversal, de-rolling, coaching and more are
carefully explained, and the reader can visualise the practical
session. This is the genius of the author, her capacity to bring
alive her work in a genuine and real way. One quotation must
suffice to illustrate: ‘...a two-part role relationship can be
worked on without actually taking on the role of the other. It is
worth remembering that the role relationship exists not only as a
historical experience and narrative but also as an internal object
relationship.’ I found this book immensely readable, informative
and accessible." - Professor Sue Jennings PhD, Professor of Play
(EFD), visiting Professor University of Derby, UK, Specialist in
Neuro-Dramatic-Play (www.ndpltd.org)
"Anna Chesner and her colleagues have created a dynamic, lucid and
far-reaching presentation of one-to-one psychodrama stemming from
decades of innovative work at the London Centre for Psychodrama.
The book is wonderfully reader-friendly and the illustrations are
very special in terms of both creativity and utility. Many of the
perspectives and practices featured here are also likely to be of
interest to psychotherapists and counsellors who do not (yet) use
psychodrama as an element within their clinical approach. I expect
a standing ovation from within the field of psychodrama itself."
Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of
Essex"This book is an exciting, generous and much-needed
contribution to the field of psychodrama psychotherapy – essential
reading for practitioners and students. It shows how healing and
richly creative one-to-one psychodrama psychotherapy can be. Anna
Chesner has brought together a group of international authors who
range from the most experienced to the newly minted; all of them
offer fresh ideas drawn from front-line one-to-one practice. The
ideas are intellectually far-reaching and bold, and the case
studies are empathic, humane and deeply rooted in theory and
practice wisdom. Read this book and be inspired to develop your
one-to-one practice to the next level." Dr Clark Baim, Senior
Trainer in Psychodrama Psychotherapy (UKCP, BPA), Honorary
President of the British Psychodrama Association, Director of the
Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama, UK"This is a remarkable book.
It takes us on a guided journey through the application of
psychodrama in the one-to-one therapeutic context. Theory appears
in measurable doses without diverting the main path. We pass
through several examples of practice and careful explanations show
us the reason that various decisions are made. Techniques of
doubling, role reversal, de-rolling, coaching and more are
carefully explained, and the reader can visualise the practical
session. This is the genius of the author, her capacity to bring
alive her work in a genuine and real way. One quotation must
suffice to illustrate: ‘...a two-part role relationship can be
worked on without actually taking on the role of the other. It is
worth remembering that the role relationship exists not only as a
historical experience and narrative but also as an internal object
relationship.’ I found this book immensely readable, informative
and accessible." Professor Sue Jennings PhD, Professor of Play
(EFD), visiting Professor University of Derby, Specialist in
Neuro-Dramativ-Play, www.ndpltd.org
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