Imagination, Identification and Catharsis in Theatre and Therapy

Roger Grainger was a freelance Dramatherapist, Chartered Psychologist and occasional TV actor. He published widely in this area, including The Glass of Heaven for Jessica Kingsley. Mary Duggan is Senior Clinical Practitioner (Occupational Therapy) at Wakefield and Pontefract Community NHS Trust.

...it certainly will be useful and challenging reading for students and other searchers who will appreciate the vast expanse of experience and wisdom that is shared with the reader and which encourages wider reading through helpful references and exploration of other works.

• Introduction. 1. As If and Identification. 2. Metaphor: The Artistic Use of As If. 3. Suspending Disbelief. 4. Role. 5. Catharsis and As If. 6. Image and Archetype: Aristotle and Artaud. 7. As If and Healing. 8. Dramatherapy. 9. Drama and Change. Bibliography.