Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies

Trauma in the creative and embodied therapies is a cross-professional book looking at current approaches to working therapeutically and socially with trauma in a creative and embodied way.

Anna Chesner is co-director of the London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy, where she trains psychotherapists and supervisors. Anna works in private practice in London as a UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor sissy lykou, MA, PGCert, Onassis Foundation fellow, is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, dance movement psychotherapist and supervisor, and the programme leader of the MSc in Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute. She practises in London privately and in community psychotherapy projects for children under five years of age and their parents/carers. She is also the clinical community and outreach lead of an innovative therapists' community, Stillpoint Spaces London.

Part 1 - Wider Perspective; 1: Sociopolitical perspectives on trauma in a world in crisis: 'the personal is political'; 2: Enacting testimony: trauma stories in playback theatre; Part 2 - Clinical Perspectives; 3: The unplayable piano: from discord to harmony: trauma, play therapy and the power of the non-verbal; 4: As time goes by... Music psychotherapy and trauma; 5: Healing trauma through embodied relating: Re-establishing rhythms of relating; 6: Psychodrama and healing the traumatic wound; 7: Building resilience: Developing embodied and relational resources in a Gestalt movement therapy group for women with borderline personality disorder and histories of profound trauma; 8: Dance movement psychotherapy: the body tells the unspeakable; 9: The warrior's journey; 10: Letting go of the spider; 11: An elemental relationship: Nature-based trauma therapy; Part 3 - The impact of trauma on the therapist and embodied supervisory approaches; 12: Secondary traumatisation and therapist illness; 13: Movement observation in trauma-centred case supervision