Deadly Therapy: Lessons in Liveliness from Theater and Performance Theory

by Michael Karson

Book Overview

Therapists have a lot to learn from theater professionals about helping people narrate important conflicts, understand uplifting ideas, and engage in illuminating interactions. Analysis of theater has also produced Goffman's dramaturgical vision of reality, in which people are beset with performance problems including defining situations, forming teams, casting roles, and managing discrediting information. A dramaturgical understanding of psychotherapy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765704455
• ISBN13: 9780765704450
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"