Performing Psychologies
Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind
Published on 7. February 2019
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-4742-6085-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
With each chapter presenting various case studies in relation to topics such as madness, autism, dementia, trauma, and psychotherapy, this collection excels at presenting a wide range of approaches to reading performance in relation to how the mind makes meaning out of lived experience, focusing on marginalized psychological states in relation to performance, therapy, and applied theatre. * Theatre Journal *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
11 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1240 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-6085-5 (9781474260855)
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Nicola Shaughnessy | Philip Barnard
Performing Psychologies
Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind
E-Book
02/2019
1st Edition
Methuen Drama
€37.49
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Persons
Dr Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK.
Dr Philip Barnard worked for the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge from 1972 to 2011.
Dr Philip Barnard worked for the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge from 1972 to 2011.
Content
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Contexts
1 Changing Minds and Minding the Gap: Interactions between Arts and Science
Nicola Shaughnessy and Philip Barnard
2 Imagining An/Other: Histories, Theories and Theatres of Mind through the Mirrors of Hamlet
Nicola Shaughnessy
3 Paying Attention to Meanings in the Psychological Sciences and the Performing Arts,
Philip Barnard
Part 2 Interdisciplinary Perspectives
4 Evaluating Atypical Imagination and Cognition: Working in the Arts/Science Interspace,
Ilona Roth
5 The Wind and the Rain: Facing Dementia in Lear/Cordelia and The Garden
Robert Shaughnessy
6 'Her painful legs joined in the conversation' Dramatherapy and the Space Before and
Beyond the Talking Cure
Emma Brodzinsky
Part 3 Practices and Responses
7 Where is her Mind? Space, Feminism and Mental Illness in Plays by Sarah Daniels and
Sarah Kane
Christopher Dingwall-Jones
A Response Incomprehensibility and Mutual Recovery Paul Crawford
8 A Cry Without an Echo: Consciousness, Creativity and the Healing work of the Arts
Ellen W. Kaplan
A Response Artistic Healing and the Overcoming of Rehabilitation Paradigms
Fabiola Camuti
9 Autism and Affect in Post-Realist Theatre,
Marla Carlson
A Response Scientific Truth, Artistic Licence, Fiction and Reality Thalia R Goldstein
Part 4 Changing Minds
10 Reflections on The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland: A conversation
between David Woods and Jon Haynes of Ridiculusmus with commentary by Richard Talbot.
11 Re: Creating Psychiatry through Participatory Performance: Playing On Theatre and Mental Health Acts
Nicola Shaughnessy, Jim Pope, Phil Osment and Hugh Grant-Peterkin
Epilogue: Nicola Shaughnessy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Contexts
1 Changing Minds and Minding the Gap: Interactions between Arts and Science
Nicola Shaughnessy and Philip Barnard
2 Imagining An/Other: Histories, Theories and Theatres of Mind through the Mirrors of Hamlet
Nicola Shaughnessy
3 Paying Attention to Meanings in the Psychological Sciences and the Performing Arts,
Philip Barnard
Part 2 Interdisciplinary Perspectives
4 Evaluating Atypical Imagination and Cognition: Working in the Arts/Science Interspace,
Ilona Roth
5 The Wind and the Rain: Facing Dementia in Lear/Cordelia and The Garden
Robert Shaughnessy
6 'Her painful legs joined in the conversation' Dramatherapy and the Space Before and
Beyond the Talking Cure
Emma Brodzinsky
Part 3 Practices and Responses
7 Where is her Mind? Space, Feminism and Mental Illness in Plays by Sarah Daniels and
Sarah Kane
Christopher Dingwall-Jones
A Response Incomprehensibility and Mutual Recovery Paul Crawford
8 A Cry Without an Echo: Consciousness, Creativity and the Healing work of the Arts
Ellen W. Kaplan
A Response Artistic Healing and the Overcoming of Rehabilitation Paradigms
Fabiola Camuti
9 Autism and Affect in Post-Realist Theatre,
Marla Carlson
A Response Scientific Truth, Artistic Licence, Fiction and Reality Thalia R Goldstein
Part 4 Changing Minds
10 Reflections on The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland: A conversation
between David Woods and Jon Haynes of Ridiculusmus with commentary by Richard Talbot.
11 Re: Creating Psychiatry through Participatory Performance: Playing On Theatre and Mental Health Acts
Nicola Shaughnessy, Jim Pope, Phil Osment and Hugh Grant-Peterkin
Epilogue: Nicola Shaughnessy
Notes
Bibliography
Index