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Psychotherapy Videos & DVDs for teaching, training, self-study and CE |
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 In these extremely powerful live group sessions, master clinician and psychodramatist Tian Dayton works with group participants to confront childhood abuse, and work through trauma that they are carrying in their bodies. Dayton addresses these delicate issues with directness and great care, employing innovative action-oriented techniques that you can use in your work with clients, whether you are trained in psychodrama or not.
Healing Childhood Abuse through Psychodrama
Psychodrama recreates powerful relational dynamics from the past to bring about cathartic change in the present. Trauma from child abuse remains trapped inside us and continues to threaten our feelings of safety and wellbeing through adulthood. Psychodrama allows us to safely reinhabit the body at the point of past abuse and make sense of the experience from an adult perspective. In this video, Bob fears that he is passing on the legacy of abuse from his stepfather to his four-year-old granddaughter. He acts out scenes with his mother, stepfather and granddaughter, playing both himself and reversing roles. In so doing, Tian helps Bob release hidden emotions, say the things he never got to as a child, and create new meaning around his past and current relationships.
From watching this video, you'll be able to:
- Utilize role-play, role reversal and doubling techniques with clients who have suffered trauma from childhood abuse.
- Create psychodrama warm-up exercises, action scenes, and group sharing discussions
- Adapt Tian Dayton’s unique approach to working with childhood abuse to your own therapy work with clients.
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Trauma and the Body: A Psychodramatic Approach
The body remembers the trauma that the mind does not. Psychodrama provides a space for the body to speak, for somatic memory to become conscious, and for the mind to connect and process what the body is experiencing. In this video, Travis speaks to his wounded heart and works through his fear of dying; Sheila speaks to her mother who committed suicide and releases anger that was locked up for many years; and Amal speaks to the birth mother she never met, confronting the belief that she was never loved or wanted. Dayton highlights the emotion that emerges from these participants’ bodies, and helps give voice and meaning to the catharsis that emerges so that an integration between mind and body can occur.
From watching this video, you'll be able to:
- Utilize role-play, role reversal and doubling techniques with clients who have suffered trauma.
- Create psychodrama warm-up exercises, action scenes, and group sharing discussions.
- Adapt Tian Dayton’s unique approach to working with trauma and the body to your own therapy work with clients.
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"These DVDs clearly present in a step-by-step fashion how psychodrama works and why this extraordinary approach is so valuable in
treatment. Tian Dayton's is an incisive and sensitive director; her approach is clear, deep and emotionally intelligent. I recommend
these to psychodramatists, drama therapists, and, indeed, to all psychotherapists searching for effective methods to treat trauma."
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Robert J. Landy, PhD - Director, Drama Therapy Program
New York University
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"These are the best available demonstrations of how the method operates in the field today. Dayton explains the rationale of her moves so you can follow the director's strategy. The follow-up material, including interviews of participants, greatly enrich the viewers' understandings, and the accompany Instructor's Manuals make these DVDs especially useful for training. I must add that I was deeply touched at several points while watching watching these, as the humanity of the participants emerged so vividly."
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Adam Blatner, MD - Author of Foundations of Psychodrama and Interactive and Improvisational Drama
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