Space, Place and Dramatherapy

International Perspectives

Eliza Sweeney (University of Caen, France)

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Routledge
06 May 2025

Humanities; Cultural studies; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)

Series: Routledge Research in Creative Arts and Expressive Therapies

Space, Place and Dramatherapy: International Perspectives provides radical, critical and practical insights into the relevance and significance of space and place in dramatherapy practice. Bringing together an international breadth of contributors, the chapters of this book reveal extensive reflections on the many spaces in which dramatherapists and their clients work and offer research implications for those wishing to critically examine their own symbolic or structural spaces in dramatherapy practice.

Chapters consider space and place from many angles: ritual and symbolic spaces; transitional and play spaces; educational and interpersonal spaces; and scenographic and architectural spaces. The book examines the impact of space on human (and more-than-human) relationships, dramatherapy practice and processes and mental health, offering new avenues of research and critical enquiry.

This volume is the first of its kind to rigorously elucidate the importance of space within the field of dramatherapy and is essential reading for academics, scholars and postgraduate students of dramatherapy as well as practicing dramatherapists and professionals within the wider domains of arts and health.

Edited by: Eliza Sweeney (University of Caen France)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032172347
ISBN 10: 1032172347
Series: Routledge Research in Creative Arts and Expressive Therapies
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 06 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Eliza Sweeney is a lecturer at the University of Caen, France, and the University of Melbourne, Australia, in art therapy. She is a dramatherapist, scenographer, artist and PhD researcher at the University of Northumbria.

Reviews for Space, Place and Dramatherapy: International Perspectives

'This book draws together a broad range of chapters and authors about the less explored, because considered obvious, concept of space in dramatherapy. Especially innovative areas for me were scenography and ritual space, in addition to the useful chapters on educational and play spaces. This book opens up a dialogue about the many spaces among, between and with which we work as dramatherapists. Trainees, practitioners and researchers can usefully develop their own perspectives from this invaluable volume'. Ditty Dokter, PhD, past course leader MA dramatherapy, Roehampton and Anglia Ruskin Universities