drama therapy
Americannoun
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a type of psychotherapy encouraging patients to use dramatic techniques to deal with emotional and psychological problems.
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a psychodrama staged to dramatize difficulties and problems.
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Now Harriet is back home hopes to begin a master's degree at Derby University in drama therapy in 2026.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
He’d recently read the book “The Body Keeps the Score” and was introduced to the idea of drama therapy.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
Are we witnessing a drama therapy session or Jerome’s woozy imaginings?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2020
Dr. Dintino, a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Manhattan and a faculty position at Columbia University, also teaches in N.Y.U.’s drama therapy program, which uses theater techniques as a means to heal.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2014
At the time, I was visiting the camps looking for a place to stage The Trojan Women, Euripides’s great antiwar tragedy, as a drama therapy project for refugees.
From Newsweek
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