Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing: More than Words examines a number of widely used expressive arts therapies from a communication perspective, providing case studies and other qualitative investigations focused specifically on communication aspects of expressive therapies including drama, music, and dance/movement therapies. This collection, edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz and authored by contributors with experience as educators, artists, and licensed therapists, integrates communication, therapy, and pedagogy to explore the role and efficacy of expressive arts therapies. Scholars of communication, performing arts, and mental health will find this book particularly useful, along with mental health practitioners and scholars conducting fieldwork.
Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing: More than Words examines a number of widely used expressive arts therapies from a communication perspective, providing case studies and other qualitative investigations focused specifically on communication aspects of expressive therapies including drama, music, and dance/movement therapies. This collection, edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz and authored by contributors with experience as educators, artists, and licensed therapists, integrates communication, therapy, and pedagogy to explore the role and efficacy of expressive arts therapies. Scholars of communication, performing arts, and mental health will find this book particularly useful, along with mental health practitioners and scholars conducting fieldwork.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kamran Afary and Marianne Alice Fritz
Part I. Performance and Drama
1.Teaching Interpersonal Communication in Prison with
Narradrama
Kamran Afary
2.More than Human
Mady Schutzman
3.Theatre for Revolution or Theatre for Healing? Forum Theatre
with LGBT2SIQ+ and Other Targeted Communities
Jessica Bleuer
4.Two Snapshots: (Staging) Image Theatre as a Healing Art
Bonny McDonald
5.Eyas on the Prize: Mapping the Relaunch of Performance at the
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Andrea Baldwin
Part II. Narrative, Art, Dance, and Music
6.“Hip-Hop Just Saved Me”: Rap Music Engagement as a Music-Based
Intervention for Substance-Addicted Youth
Marianne Alice Fritz and Kamran Afary
7.Preferred Cultural Mediums of Healing: Rapping into
Identity
Travis Heath and Jacobo Mesa Ramirez
8.Music Therapy: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding How
Music Therapists and Adolescent Patients Communicate and Perform
Community
Melanie Frontz Kramer and Kurt Lindemann
9.Comfort and Catharsis: Critical Reflections on Therapeutic
Dance Practice
Greg Langner
10.The Art of Love: Using Participatory Community Arts
Engagement to Facilitate Relational Maintenance among Couples with
Dementia
Anna K. Griggs, Meara H. Faw, and Laura H. Malinin
11.Storying Clinical Interactions: Narrative Medicine as an
Artistic Intervention in Medical Training and Education
Elizabeth Spradley
About the Contributors
Kamran Afary is assistant professor of communication studies at
California State University, Los Angeles.
Alice Marianne Fritz is lecturer in the Department of Speech at
East Los Angeles College.
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