The healing function of theater is reflected in all human cultures. Today, therapists and scientists work with psychodrama and drama therapy, often describing theater as the art form closest to life itself. In a unique cooperation between professional actors and a dance movement therapist/pain researcher, patients with fibromyalgia have first been trained in body and voice expression and therea...

emerge ' out of the blue ' but in close contact with the momentary strictures " of each fundamental situation. A technique of training applied on the wrong level can be wasted effort or harmful. Time will undoubtedly provide clearer information from those in this county who have themselves become experienced enough in this technique to lay their investigations before a wider circle. The Theatre...

In therapy, as in all human activity, drama is both inevitable and necessary. It is inevitable because, during the human life-cycle, people are constantly confronted with dramatic changes and it is necessary because all transitions occur as a result of more or less dramatic experiences-in-action. Thus, it is not surprising that drama has been used for centuries both within the theatre and in va...

this study sets out to investigate the effectiveness of the integrated cognitive-psychodrama training on modifying irrational relationship beliefs among married women. statistical population included all of married women living in allameh tabatabaei university dormitories in 2011. 30 samples were randomly selected among the married women with high relationship beliefs grades and distributed ran...