Imagination, Identification and Catharsis in Theatre and Therapy

Contents

• 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.