Intercultural Arts Therapies Research

Ditty Dokter is the course leader of MA Dramatherapy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She has held posts within NHS trusts and universities and is currently affiliated with the KENVAK arts therapies research centre (Netherlands). She also worked in the tertiary sector to support and advocate the integration of clients with learning disabilities and refugees. Her most recent edited publication is (2011) Dramatherapy and Destructiveness. Margaret Hills De Zárate originally trained as an Art Therapist (Goldsmith’s, University of London), as well as in Counselling, Group Theory and Applications at the Scottish Institute of Human Relations (1990-94). She has been awarded a Master’s degree in Education from Edinburgh University (1994) and a PhD from Queen Margaret’s University (2006). She has also worked extensively in social and mental health services in the UK, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

1 Introduction Part I Communication and culture 2 Dramatherapy Across Languages: Experiences, Drawbacks and Opportunities for Dramatherapists and their Clients, Working in a Second Language 3 Touching Insights. Visual and Tactile Cultures in Researching Art Psychotherapy with Congenitally Blind Children 4 Dance Movement Therapy Training: the Challenges of Interculturality and Cross-cultural Communication within a Diverse Student Group-analytic Large Group 5 Transposing Musical Cultures in Music Therapy: Exploring the Use of Indonesian Gamelan Music in Western Clinical Practice Part II Intercultural practice guidelines and skills sharing 6 Developing Intercultural Good Practice Guidelines in Dramatherapy 7 Intercultural Skill-sharing in Music Therapy Part III Ethnographic voices 8 Voices within Intercultural Arts Psychotherapy Research and Practice – an Ethnographic Approach 9 Voice of the Object: Art Psychotherapy and Translating Cultures 10 Translating the Cultural Subtext: an Auto-ethnographical Narrative of Facilitating a Reflective Space Through Creative Methods for Newly Qualified Teachers