Empowering Therapeutic Practice

Clark Baim has 25 years of experience working internationally as a trainer, group leader, supervisor and consultant working with organizational change. He is a registered psychotherapist and senior trainer with the British Psychodrama Association, and he is Co-Director of Change Point Ltd., which offers staff training in a wide variety of organizations. He is also Co-Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama. Clark has published extensively on supervision, groupwork methods, psychotherapy, attachment theory, applied theatre and offender treatment.

• Foreword. Marcia Karp, group and individual psychotherapist and trainer, educator and practitioner in psychodrama. Glossary: An Introduction to Psychodrama Concepts and Terms. Marcia Karp and Mark Farrall, forensic psychologist and psychodramatist, Director of Ignition. 1. Introduction: The Integration of Psychodrama and other Modalities. Paul Holmes, child and adolescent psychiatrist, adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist and psychodrama psychotherapist, Kate Kirk, psychodrama psychotherapist, researcher and trainer, and Mark Farrall. 2. Psychodrama and Mentalization: Loosening the Illusion of a Fixed Reality. Anna Napier, clinical specialist occupational therapist and psychodrama psychotherapist, and Anna Chesner, psychodrama and group analytic psychotherapist. 3. Psychodrama and Group Analysis. Mary Levens, Group Analyst, Institute of Group Analysis. 4. Passion in Action: Family Systems Therapy and Psychodrama. Chip Chimera, psychodramatist and systemic family psychotherapist, Director of Centre for Child Studies, The Institute of Family Therapy, London. 5. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Psychodrama. Bernadette Hammond, high intensity therapist and psychodrama psychotherapist. 6. Integrating Psychodrama with Attachment Theory: Implications for Practice. Clark Baim, Senior Trainer in Psychodrama Psychotherapy and Co-Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama, UK. 7. Hypnotherapy, Altered States of Consciousness and Psychodrama. Eberhard Scheiffele, theatre artist, psychotherapist and psychodramatist. 8. Scenes From a Distance: Psychodrama and Dramatherapy. John Casson, dramatherapist and psychodrama psychotherapist. 9. Psychodrama Informed by Adaptive Information Processing (AIP): The Theory Underpinning Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). Kate Bradshaw-Tauvon, psychotherapist and Co-Founder of Stockholm Institute for Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. 10. The Owl and the Pussycat: Psychodrama, Other Therapies and Young People. Kate Kirk and Carl Dutton, psychodrama psychotherapist and mental health nurse. 11. Psychoanalysis and Psychodrama. Teresa M. Brown, psychodramatist, trainer, supervisor and examiner. References.

This book explores the fertile territory where psychodrama can empower and enrich, as well as learn from, other therapeutic modalities.