The Reverse Side of the Advantages of Theatrical and Dramatic Means of Art Therapy

- Савінов, Володимир Вікторович (orcid.org/0000-0001-5830-2333) (2020) The Reverse Side of the Advantages of Theatrical and Dramatic Means of Art Therapy Простір арт-терапії, 1 (27). pp. 40-57. ISSN 2310-3159

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the purposeful use of the art of theater and drama in modern psychotherapeutic practices, which has become quite popular and in demand in recent decades. It is shown that the use of theatrical and dramatic means in psychotherapy can be productively viewed through the prism of the theoretical provisions of art therapy, which has such differences from other methods as resourcefulness, metaphorical, and triplicity, and the advantages of enhancing creative potential, universality, softness, and the absence of restrictions in application, non-verbalism, insight-orientation, breadth of possibilities for self-expression and selfknowledge. But the theory of art therapy lacks a comparison of the use of theatricalization itself in the psychotherapeutic process with other modalities of work, kinds of art therapy. It was also found that there is not enough information for the practical use of theatrical and dramatic means, what are the specific difficulties, limitations, risks, warnings, traps. General obstacles, contraindications, limitations and risks of group psychotherapeutic work are considered. The specificity of the use of theatrical and dramatic means in the art therapy process is analyzed in two stages. First, the highly specific advantages associated with the very specificity of theater art and its disclosure in the context of art therapy are proposed and substantiated. Secondly, limitations and risks are formulated due to the chosen modality of work and arising from the same properties of theatrical and dramatic art that contribute to the efficiency and environmental friendliness of its use. As a result, on the basis of the analysis, the following advantages of the use of theatrical and dramatic means in art therapy are identified as initially playful character, imagery, lifelikeness and complexity. Based on the consideration of the characteristics of these strengths, the psychotherapeutic risks of superficiality, hyperidentification, interweaving of contexts and stupor, as well as specific difficulties of group dynamics, are revealed. In each of the types of risk, the essence of restrictions on the use of theatricalizations and dramatizations in the art therapy process is shown and ways of their prevention are outlined.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	УДК 159.98. ББК 84.5. Рекомендовано до друку рішенням вченої ради ДВНЗ «Університет менеджменту освіти» НАПН України (протокол № 9 від 23 вересня 2020 р.), підписано до друку 30. 09. 2020 р. © ДВНЗ «УМО» НАПН України, 2020; © ВГО «Арт-терапевтична асоціація», 2020.
Keywords:	Theater, drama, Art Therapy, theatrical and dramatic means of Art Therapy, Playback Theatre, Dramatherapy, Psychodrama, advantages of using, risks of using, restrictions on using, group dynamics, ways to prevent risks.
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 304 Social questions. Social practice. Cultural practice. Way of life (Lebensweise) Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 314/316 Society Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 36 Safeguarding the mental and material necessities of life Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 377 Specialized instruction. Vocational, technical, professional training. Vocational colleges, institutes. Polytechnics
Divisions:	The Institute of Social and Political Psychology > Laboratory for Social Psychology of Personality
Depositing User:	М.н.с. лабораторії соціальної психології особистості ІСПП НАПН України Володимир Вікторович Савінов
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2021 20:57
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2021 20:57
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/724107

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