Drama as therapy
Lecture about the course Dramatherapy at NHLStenden, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Brno, 8-12-2021
Marius den Otter

•What is the difference?
•What can I use?
•Where is the thin line between them?
Dramatherapy vs Educational drama

• Ask questions during the lecture
• also for translation
•Tell me if we nead a short break
Agreements during the lecture

•Zastavte mě po 120 minutách (nebo jen odejděte)
Agreements during the lecture


•Professional Tasks Art-therapist
•Clinical process Art therapy
•Working in the art
•Art – therapeutic triangel
•Acting for real; 5 phases
•Assessments in Dramatherapy
•Treatment, methods, interventions
•Dramaskills of a dramatherapist
Programm

•Art therapy is a way of treatment for people with a mental illness or psychosocial problems.
•Focus is more on doing and to experience then on talking
Definition FVB (Dutch federation of art-therapy)

•Art
•Drama
•Music
•Psycho-motor
•Dance
•Play
Differentations
Art-therapy

Professional tasks Art-therapist



Clinical process
Art - therapy


A picture containing text, clipart Description automatically generated
•Observation
•Diagnose / indication
•Treatment (plan)
•Effect
Clinical process Art - therapy

•Parallel proces vs analoge proces
•
•The fictional context and the real feelings
•
•over- and underdistancing
•
Working with and in drama

Art – therapeutic triangel
Client


Art – therapeutic triangel
Client
Therapist
Therapeutic relation
Interventions
(counter-)transfer

Art – therapeutic triangel
T
C
Art

Art – therapeutic triangel
T
C
Art
Interventions in drama

1.Dramatic play
2.Scenework
3.Roleplay
4.Culminating enactment
5.Dramatic Ritual
• (Emunah, 1994)
Dramatherapeutic process

•What is important to pay attention to if I want to investigate whether an intervention is suitable
for my client?
Assessment in dramatherapy

Assessment in dramatherapy



•
•Why should change happen in dramatherapy?
Treatment in dramatherapy

•
•Why should change happen in dramatherapy?
•
•Transdiagnostic factors
Treatment in dramatherapy

•
•Why should change happen in dramatherapy?
•
•Core-processes (Jones, 2007)
Treatment in dramatherapy

1.Dramatic projection
2.Therapeutis Performance Process
3.Empathy and distancing
4.Personification and impersonation
5.Interactive audiënce and witnessing
9 core processes (Jones, 2007)
6. Embodiment
7. Playing
8. Life-drama connection
9. Transformation

•The student is able to
- move freely in drama
- to independently research and analyze his or her own work
•
Learning outcomes in drama

•Puppetry, Masks,
•Theater of the Opressed (Boal)
•Roleplaying (Landy)
•Greek drama
•Playback Theater
•Developmental Transformations
•Storymaking & storytelling (Campbell’s ‘the Hero’s Journey)
•Narradrama (Dunn)
•Improvisation
•….
•
•
Exampels drama- methods

•Idea’s of Eric Vos, director of De Appel
•
•i.c.w.
•
•Method of Helmert Woudenberg
•Actor of Het Werktheater
Workshop 8~10-12-21

•Dramatherapy vs Educational drama
•
•What is the difference?
•What can I use?
•Where is the thin line between them?
Just curious…

•Was it o.k.?
•
Just curious