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.

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.

• List of Illustrations Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsPart 1 Contexts1 Changing Minds and Minding the Gap: Interactions between Arts and Science Nicola Shaughnessy and Philip Barnard2 Imagining An/Other: Histories, Theories and Theatres of Mind through the Mirrors of HamletNicola Shaughnessy3 Paying Attention to Meanings in the Psychological Sciences and the Performing Arts, Philip Barnard Part 2 Interdisciplinary Perspectives4 Evaluating Atypical Imagination and Cognition: Working in the Arts/Science Interspace, Ilona Roth5 The Wind and the Rain: Facing Dementia in Lear/Cordelia and The GardenRobert Shaughnessy6 ‘Her painful legs joined in the conversation’ Dramatherapy and the Space Before and Beyond the Talking CureEmma BrodzinskyPart 3 Practices and Responses7 Where is her Mind? Space, Feminism and Mental Illness in Plays by Sarah Daniels and Sarah KaneChristopher Dingwall-Jones A Response Incomprehensibility and Mutual Recovery Paul Crawford8 A Cry Without an Echo: Consciousness, Creativity and the Healing work of the ArtsEllen W. Kaplan A Response Artistic Healing and the Overcoming of Rehabilitation ParadigmsFabiola Camuti9 Autism and Affect in Post-Realist Theatre, Marla CarlsonA Response Scientific Truth, Artistic Licence, Fiction and Reality Thalia R GoldsteinPart 4 Changing Minds10 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 ActsNicola Shaughnessy, Jim Pope, Phil Osment and Hugh Grant-PeterkinEpilogue: Nicola ShaughnessyNotesBibliographyIndex