Space, Place and Dramatherapy

Eliza Sweeney is a lecturer at the University of Caen, France, and the University of Melbourne, Australia, in art therapy. She is a dramatherapist, scenographer, artist and PhD researcher at the University of Northumbria.

Foreword. Preface. Prelude. The Obviousness of Space of Anything But. Part 1: The Built Environment and Scenography in Dramatherapy. Chapter 1: Teachings from Echo. Chapter 2: How Hut-Making in Dramatherapy Created a Therapeutic Play Space. Chapter 3: Space Plays a Leading Role: The Therapeutic Power of the Built Environment and Co-Design Processes in Dramatherapy. Chapter 4: Neutral Mask and Embodied Dreamwork, Spaces of Containment. Part 2: Education and Play Space in Dramatherapy. Chapter 5: Learning and Therapeutic Spaces in Dramatherapy and Education. Chapter 6: Connecting Spaces: Playing to Relate. Chapter 7: Essential Factors Both Practical and Imaginal for Defining the Dramatherapy Play Space in Special Education. Part 3: Ritual, Intersubjective and Spiritual Space. Chapter 8: The Fullness of Emptiness. The Significance of Space and the Usefulness of the Concepts of Shunya (The Void/Empty Space), Akasha or Vyoman (Open Vastness), Kha (The Enclosed Space) in Hinduism and Buddhism for Dramatherapy Practice Chapter 9: ‘Clear the Space. Claim the Space. Sanctify the Space’. Intersubjectivity and Spirituality in Dramatherapy According to Roger Grainger. Chapter 10: Liminality and ritual in Dramatherapy – The Intersubjective Space. Chapter 11: Preparing the Ritual Space: The Transition from Everyday Reality to Dramatic Reality. Postlude. Future Spaces of Dramatherapy