Experiential Therapy from Trauma to Post-traumatic Growth

Kate Hudgins, PhD, TEP is American Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy with a Ph.D., in Clinical Psychology. She is the creator of the Therapeutic Spiral Model, a safe and effective clinical system of experiential psychotherapy of modified psychodrama for trauma. She has won the Innovator and Scholar Awards from the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and is an internationally known expert and author on trauma and action methods.  She is Visiting Professor at Hua Qiao University in Xiamen, China.  Steven Durost, PhD, LCMHC, REAT, CP runs the premiere expressive arts therapy and clinical mental health counseling center in Manchester, NH, USA, named C.R.E.A.T.E! Center for Expressive Arts, Therapy and Education!  He has a PhD in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University where he is also Adjunct Faculty.  Steven is a worldwide trainer in the Therapeutic Spiral Model and received the Zerka T. Moreno Award for distinguished work in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy by the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, as well as numerous other awards for innovation, leadership and social justice.

• Preface- Acknowledgments.- Chapter 1. The History and Evolution of TSM Psychodrama.- Chapter 2.  The Experience of Trauma on the Self:  Trauma Bubbles, Spiral Images & the Autonomous Healing Center.- Chapter 3. The Trauma Survivor’s Internal Role Atom: TSM’s Clinical Map for Safety.- Chapter 4. The Roles of the TSM Action Healing Team.- Chapter 5. The Six TSM Safety Structures.- Chapter 6. Clinical Contracts and Types of TSM Dramas.- Chapter 7. Clinically Modified TSM Doubles: The Body and Containing Doubles.- Chapter 8. The Experience of Simultaneous Protagonists in TSM Psychodrama.- Chapter 9. The Conscious Use of Spontaneity in TSM Trained Auxiliaries.- Chapter 10. Enacting the Victim and Perpetrator Roles with Controlled Regression.- Chapter 11. A TSM Prescriptive Role Drama:  Strengths and Containment.- Chapter 12. A TSM Trauma Drama:  The Structure of the TSM Trauma Triangle.- Chapter 13. A TSM Post-traumatic Growth Drama: The Sleeping Awakening Child and theAppropriate Authority.- Chapter 14. Zoom is the TSM Brain in Action:  Expanding Online.- Chapter 15. Sociometric Diagrams of Projective Identification in TSM Groups—invited chapter by Ina Hogenboom, MSc, TEP, Psychodrama Training and Coaching, the Netherlands.- Chapter 16. Celebrating TSM Psychodrama through the Art of Integration- References- Appendices.