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No. 1 (2016)

Psychotherapy and theater: notes for a possible comparison

DOI
https://doi.org/10.53262/caleido.1.2019.45-56
Submitted
March 27, 2016
Published
2019-04-21

Abstract

The author wonders whether there is a possible sharing experience between psychotherapy and theatre. This opportunity offers itself thanks to the case of a young patient, named Fabio, followed by mental health center and the beginning of a brilliant theatrical performance which took him to various places. It’s the same Fabio who will begin psychotherapy using the nonverbal game to search for verbal expression in his lived.
The games becomes metaphors common to both counts. Psychotherapy and theatre become enlarged symbolic work spaces where what is implemented and performed in theatre can become a starting point for a reflection and a reunion in psychotherapy with new evolutionary possibilities.