Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece: Demeter and Asklepios

Abstract

This article focuses on two important rituals of Ancient Greece, which are of some interest for dramatherapists, as dramatic performances had a key role in them. We will examine them from a historical point of view, then explore their mythic contents and how they were expressed in drama, trying to suggest cues that relate them to present day dramatherapy theory and practice.

Vocal Psychotherapy with traumatised Greek clients

“…The alternative reality experimented within drama can influence the lives of people involved and can be addressed, either consciously or not, towards healing, problem-solving, a better adjustment to the world, or even the search for a deeper meaning of existence (Pitruzzella, 2011) Farge, 2007) borrowed the term complementary identification, I identify myself with one of the client's internal objects. There, the analytic process itself becomes a web of enactments in which that reality is both played out and understood and is totally bound up with the psychic reality of me.…”