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Psychodrama Unmasked: Essential Tools and Techniques

with Tobi Klein

In these live sessions, master psychodramatist Tobi Klein, MSW, teaches the core principles and techniques of psychodrama.

The Zerka T. Moreno Psychodrama Series (3-Video Series)

with Zerka Moreno

Learn psychodrama from one of the great masters, the wife of psychodrama founder J.L. Moreno. This action-oriented method can often yield powerful results more quickly than traditional talk therapy.

Psychodrama in Action

with Zerka Moreno

Psychodrama in Action shows Zerka masterfully conducting an actual psychodrama session with a group of experienced psychodrama practitioners.

Psychodrama, Sociometry and Beyond

with Zerka Moreno

Zerka Moreno discusses sociometry and its uses around the world.

See actual historical footage of J.L. Moreno conducting Psychodrama sessions! This series has been painstakingly reassembled from film from Moreno's production company, and is a treat for students, fans, and practitioners of Psychodrama.

Healing Childhood Abuse and Trauma through Psychodrama (2-Video Series)

with Tian Dayton

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.

Jacob Levy Moreno: His Life and his Muses

with Jacob Moreno

Chock full of interviews with some of the most important people in J.L. Moreno’s life, this video will be a treat for Moreno fans, old and new alike.

Action Methods in Couples Therapy

with Daniel Wiener

Dr. Daniel Wiener demonstrates how to energize and enhance your couples work by incorporating drama therapy techniques called Rehearsals for Growth™.

Psychodrama in Action, 1960s

with Jacob Moreno

This movie takes place in a mental hospital in California; it was produced in the 1960's when Moreno was touring the state.

Psychodrama of a Marriage (around 1948)

with Jacob Moreno

See the legendary founder of psychodrama in action in this painstaking restored historic footage.

Psychodrama of a Marriage: A Motion Picture

with Jacob Moreno

This movie was shot in Paris during the First International Congress of Psychodrama. It was produced by Radio and Television Center of France in September, 1964.

Spontaneity Training and Role Re-Training and Introduction to Psychodrama

with Jacob Moreno

Exploring Narradrama

with Pamela Dunne

This video offers an introduction to the tools and techniques of Narradrama, a therapeutic approach that combines narrative therapy, drama therapy and creative arts.

Zerka on Psychodrama

with Zerka Moreno

In this candid interview, Zerka Moreno distills the essence of psychodrama, its history and application.

Trauma and the Body: A Psychodramatic Approach

with Tian Dayton

Watch expert psychodramatist Tian Dayton work with group participants to help work through the traumas they carry within their bodies.

Creative Healing in Mental Health

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

Here is a rare opportunity to witness world-famous art and drama therapists working with clients from all walks of life on their journeys to healing, including an adolescent boy with Asperger’s, families affected by cancer, an Alzheimer’s patient, and combat veterans.

Empowering Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Creative Arts Therapies Approach

with Stephen Snow

Gain new tools for helping adults with developmental disabilities using creative arts therapies within Dr. Snow's unique ethnodramatherapy model.

Exploring Mezzo Systems

with Judith R. Smith

Social work professor Judith Smith illustrates a central concept of all social work training— Social Systems Theory. In this video, the "mezzo system" is explored as part of a larger exploration of human behavior and the social environment.

Healing Childhood Abuse through Psychodrama

with Tian Dayton

Psychodramatist Tian Dayton shows how psychodrama can heal the effects of child abuse in this live demonstration.

For Those Who Care: The Lived Experience of Family Caregivers

with Stephen Snow

Historically, mental illness and those who suffer in its shadow have challenged mental healthcare professionals and family caregivers alike. This video is an essential training tool for clinical practice or classroom teaching and discussion, spotlighting a Drama Therapy-based program of community support for those who care for the severely mentally ill.

Art & Drama Therapy: Child Life Inservice Workshop

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

This video shows excerpts from a workshop conducted by Judy Rubin, an art therapist, and Ellie Irwin, a drama therapist, with 9 Child Life Therapists and a Music Therapist at a Children’s Hospital. The group is led in art and drama activities, illustrating possible interventions with seriously ill children. In addition to the potential use of the specific exercises, instruction is offered throughout about basic principles for sensitivity and success in ways of incorporating art and drama more safely and effectively. Staff members are invited to raise questions during the training.

Art & Drama Sessions with Two Young Families

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

Videotaped sessions from two families show similarities and differences in art and drama family sessions, but interactional patterns and conflicts are illustrated in both, including issues of dominance/submission; victim/aggressor; problem-maker/problem-solver.

Dance Therapy Workshops

with Norma Canner, Penny Lewis

With Anne Brownell’s articulate narration, the viewer is given an intimate look at the work of two pioneers in expressive arts therapy – Norma Canner and Penny Lewis.

Drama Therapy with Children

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

In Drama Therapy with Children, Dr. Eleanor Irwin helps viewers understand the vast potential of play-acting as a tool in child psychology. Topics include spontaneous dramatic play, puppetry, body movement, storytelling, and dream exploration by children of all ages in school and community settings.

Individual Puppet Therapy with Four Children

with Eleanor C. Irwin

This video shows four different children (ages 6 to 13 years old) in therapy using puppets. Through four different sessions, conducted by three different therapists (two drama therapists, and one child psychiatrist), one can see how the clinician listens to and follows the interactions.

Integrating the Arts in Therapy: Learning from the Pioneers

with Sharon Chaiklin, Eliana Gil, Peggy Heller, Eleanor C. Irwin, Clive Robbins, Judith Aron Rubin

This film documents over 6 hours of a weekend-long conference called “Integrating the Arts in Therapy: Art, Music, Dance, Drama, Poetry, Play,” held July 2009 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Sesame Drama & Movement Therapy

with Mary Smail

This film introduces the work of the Sesame Institute UK and International, a London based charity which was born out of a dream of the founder, Marian Billy Lindkvist, in1964. Taking its name from the ancient Ali Baba story, the password “Open Sesame” opens door to inner riches.

Teenage Siblings: Three Joint Sessions in Drama & Art

with Eleanor C. Irwin, Rosemarie Perla, Judith Aron Rubin

In this video, teenaged siblings, Ben and Anna, are in expressive therapy (art and drama) sessions. The video provides three different examples of how different therapists use their helping skills that might be applied to work with couples or groups as well.

The Arts as Therapy with Children

with Judith Aron Rubin

This video shows activities in multiple arts modalities—music, dance, art, and drama—in a creative arts program for young children at risk for the development of emotional problems.

To Move is to Be Alive

with Judith Aron Rubin

This film is about the contributions of Dr. Penny Lewis, a prolific writer and educator in the field of dance/movement therapy.

The Arts in Health Care

with James Babanikos, Joan Baranow, Judith Aron Rubin

This grouping of two films about a pioneering Arts in Medicine program is presented along with interviews of two creative arts therapists who work in that program. The touching experiences shared by the patients engaged in expressive arts treatment remind us of why one begins to create in the first place.

Art as Transformation: the Life & Work of Shaun McNiff

with Hephzibah Kaplan, Shaun McNiff, Bruce Moon

This video contains two films that chronicle the contributions of Dr. Shaun McNiff in expressive arts therapies. His distinctive way of engaging and motivating groups promotes intense involvement by the participants.

Dance Therapy and Authentic Movement

with Janet Adler

This video includes two films: Looking At Me and Still Looking, both by Janet Adler, PhD, ADTR showcasing her pivotal work in dance therapy.

Arts Therapies for Children with Disabilities in School

with Judith Aron Rubin

In this video, arts therapists with specialties in dance/movement, music, and art are seen working with special needs children of elementary school age in different schools, explaining why they work the way they do.

A Time to Dance: The Life & Work of Norma Canner

with Norma Canner

This unique, inspiring film provides viewers the opportunity to discover the life and work of Norma Canner, a dance teacher, therapist and pioneer in the field of dance movement therapy, and former instructor at Lesley Expressive Therapy Graduate Schools in Cambridge, MA, and Israel.

Arts in the Environment: Going to the Source

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