Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind

Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
7 February 2019
Pages
264
ISBN
9781474260855

Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind

Performing Psychologies offers new perspectives on arts and health, focussing on the different ways in which performance interacting with psychology can enhance understanding of the mind. The book challenges stereotypes of disability, madness and creativity, addressing a range of conditions (autism, dementia and schizophrenia) and performance practices including staged productions and applied work in custodial, health and community settings.

Featuring case studies ranging from Hamlet to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the pioneering work of companies such as Spare Tyre and Ridiculusmus, and embracing dance and music as well as theatre and drama, the volume offers new perspectives on the dynamic interactions between performance, psychology and states of mind. It contains contributions from psychologists, performance scholars, therapists and healthcare professionals, who offer multiple perspectives on working through performance-based media.

Presenting a richly interdisciplinary and collaborative investigation of the arts in practice, this volume opens up new ways of thinking about the performance of psychologies, and about how psychologies perform.

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