Includes bibliographical references and index.

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List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements. Part 1 Contexts : Changing minds and minding the gap: interactions between arts, science and performance / Nicola Shaughnessy and Philip Barnard -- Imagining an/other: histories, theories and theatres of mind through the mirrors of Hamlet and stages of Ophelia / Nicola Shaughnessy -- Paying attention to meanings in the psychological sciences and the performing arts / Philip Barnard. Part 2 Interdisciplinary perspectives : Evaluating atypical imagination and cognition in autism: working in the arts/science interspace / Ilona Roth -- The wind and the rain: facing dementia in Lear/Cordelia and The garden / Robert Shaughnessy -- "Her painful legs joined in the conversation": dramatherapy and the space before and beyond the talking cure / Emma Brodzinski. Part 3 Practices and responses : Where is her mind? Space, feminism and madness in plays by Sarah Daniels and Sarah Kane / Chris Dingwall-Jones -- Response: incomprehensibility and mutual recovery / Paul Crawford -- A cry without an echo: consciousness, creativity and the healing work of the arts / Ellen W. Kaplan -- Response: artistic healing and the overcoming of rehabilitation paradigms / Fabiola Camuti -- Autism and affect in post-realist theatre / Marla Carlson -- Response: scientific truth, artistic license, fiction and reality / Thalia R. Goldstein. Part 4 Changing minds : Reflections on The eradication of schizophrenia in Western Lapland: a conversation between David Woods and Jon Haynes of Ridiculusmus with commentary by Richard Talbot -- Recreating psychiatry through participatory performance: playing ON theatre and mental health acts / Nicola Shaughnessy, Jim Pope, Philip Osment and Hugh Grant-Peterkin. Epilogue / Nicola Shaughnessy. Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Offers new perspectives on arts and health, focusing on the different ways in which performance interacting with psychology can enhance understanding of the mind. The book challenges stereotypes of disability, madness and creativity, addressing a range of conditions (autism, dementia and schizophrenia) and performance practices including staged productions and applied work in custodial, health and community settings. Featuring case studies ranging from Hamlet to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the pioneering work of companies such as Spare Tyre and Ridiculusmus, and embracing dance and music as well as theatre and drama, the volume offers new perspectives on the dynamic interactions between performance, psychology and states of mind. It contains contributions from psychologists, performance scholars, therapists and healthcare professionals, who offer multiple perspectives on working through performance-based media. Presenting a richly interdisciplinary and collaborative investigation of the arts in practice, this volume opens up new ways of thinking about the performance of psychologies, and about how psychologies perform.

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