Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing

Kamran Afary is assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Alice Marianne Fritz is lecturer in the Department of Speech at East Los Angeles College.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Kamran Afary and Marianne Alice Fritz



Part I. Performance and Drama



1.Teaching Interpersonal Communication in Prison with Narradrama



Kamran Afary



2.More than Human



Mady Schutzman



3.Theatre for Revolution or Theatre for Healing? Forum Theatre with LGBT2SIQ+ and Other Targeted Communities



Jessica Bleuer



4.Two Snapshots: (Staging) Image Theatre as a Healing Art



Bonny McDonald



5.Eyas on the Prize: Mapping the Relaunch of Performance at the University of Houston-Clear Lake



Andrea Baldwin







Part II. Narrative, Art, Dance, and Music







6.“Hip-Hop Just Saved Me”: Rap Music Engagement as a Music-Based Intervention for Substance-Addicted Youth



Marianne Alice Fritz and Kamran Afary



7.Preferred Cultural Mediums of Healing: Rapping into Identity



Travis Heath and Jacobo Mesa Ramirez



8.Music Therapy: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding How Music Therapists and Adolescent Patients Communicate and Perform Community



Melanie Frontz Kramer and Kurt Lindemann



9.Comfort and Catharsis: Critical Reflections on Therapeutic Dance Practice



Greg Langner



10.The Art of Love: Using Participatory Community Arts Engagement to Facilitate Relational Maintenance among Couples with Dementia



Anna K. Griggs, Meara H. Faw, and Laura H. Malinin



11.Storying Clinical Interactions: Narrative Medicine as an Artistic Intervention in Medical Training and Education



Elizabeth Spradley

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