Performance and Cure
Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2013
144 pages
978-1-84966-772-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this fascinating addition to the Classical Inter/faces series, Karelisa V. Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. Patients who viewed this drama were ready to receive the nightly ministrations of the deity, his attendants and his animals while they slept in the dormitory at the Asklepieion.
To support her thesis, Hartigan discusses the mind-body relationship in the healing process, a relationship the medical profession is beginning to recognize. She concludes by presenting first-hand material based on her experience doing Playback Theatre for patients at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. In performing improvisational scenes at bedside or in a community space, she has witnessed how the mini-dramas lift the patients' spirits and offer them hope for a successful outcome to their illness.
To support her thesis, Hartigan discusses the mind-body relationship in the healing process, a relationship the medical profession is beginning to recognize. She concludes by presenting first-hand material based on her experience doing Playback Theatre for patients at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. In performing improvisational scenes at bedside or in a community space, she has witnessed how the mini-dramas lift the patients' spirits and offer them hope for a successful outcome to their illness.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84966-772-2 (9781849667722)
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Karelisa V. Hartigan
Performance and Cure
Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America
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05/2009
Bristol Classical Press
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Person
Karelisa V. Hartigan is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Florida, USA. She is the author of Muse on Madison Avenue: Classical Myth in Contemporary Advertising (2002), Greek Tragedy on the American Stage (1995), Ambiguity & Self-Deception: The Apollo & Artemis Plays of Euripides (1991) and The Poets and the Cities (1979).
Content
Preface
Glossary
Introduction
I. Drama and Healing in Contemporary Medicine
1. The Relationship Between Mind and Body
2. Art and Medicine
II. Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece
The Cult of Asklepios
The God
The Process
The Evidence
2. The Sanctuaries
Epidauros
Other Major Healing Sites
Regional Sites
Local Sites
Pausanias and Asklepios
Athens
III. Drama and Healing in the Contemporary American Hospital
Case Study: Shands Hospital at the University of Florida
IV. Asklepios Beyond the Classical World
1. Asklepios and Jesus
2. Healing Saints of the Greek Orthodox Church
V. Conclusion and Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Glossary
Introduction
I. Drama and Healing in Contemporary Medicine
1. The Relationship Between Mind and Body
2. Art and Medicine
II. Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece
The Cult of Asklepios
The God
The Process
The Evidence
2. The Sanctuaries
Epidauros
Other Major Healing Sites
Regional Sites
Local Sites
Pausanias and Asklepios
Athens
III. Drama and Healing in the Contemporary American Hospital
Case Study: Shands Hospital at the University of Florida
IV. Asklepios Beyond the Classical World
1. Asklepios and Jesus
2. Healing Saints of the Greek Orthodox Church
V. Conclusion and Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
