Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling

<p>The <i>Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling</i> is a unique book that explores stories from an educational, community, social, health, therapeutic and therapy perspectives, acknowledging a range of diverse social and cultural views in which stories are used and written by esteemed storytellers, artists, therapists and academics from around the globe.</p><p>The book is divided into five main sections that examine different approaches and contexts for therapeutic stories and storytelling. The collected authors explore storytelling as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, in education, social and community settings, and in health and therapeutic contexts. The final section offers an International Story Anthology written by co-editor Sharon Jacksties and a final story by Katja Gorečan.</p><p>This book is of enormous importance to psychotherapists and related mental health professionals, as well as academics, storytellers, teachers, people working in special educational needs, and all those with an interest in storytelling and its applied value.</p> <p>Foreword</p><p>Paul Animbom Ngong</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Clive Holmwood </p><p>Part 1 Covid 19 A storied Response </p><p>Introduction to Part 1</p><p>1 Making a Story out of a Crisis: A Response to Covid-19: A Dramatic Perspective</p><p>Clive Holmwood</p><p>2 The stories of Siddhartha and Captain Tom: lifetimes apart but connecting us together </p><p>Drew Bird</p><p>3 Doorways to the Deathlands – The Imaginal Seeing of Story</p><p>Mary Smail</p><p>4 Storytelling for Disability in Covid-19</p><p>Aurora Piaggesi, Giulia Bini, Silvia Carpi, Barbara Parrini and Stefania Bargagna</p><p>5 Don't let corona become our only story</p><p>Arjen Barel</p><p>Part 2 Stories & Therapeutic Texts</p><p>Introduction to Part 2</p><p>6 Through the Fairy Door ... to the Land of Stories: a journey through your imagination</p><p>Sue Jennings</p><p>7 Through the looking glass: six pitfalls in story-work</p><p>Alida Gersie</p><p>8 Structuring The Therapist’s Role: An Exploration Of Sophocles’ Play <em>King Oedipus</em> </p><p>Marina Jenkyns</p><p>9 Oral Storytelling is not dead: she's just gone to slip into something more comfortable...</p><p>Steve Stickley</p><p>10 Shakespeare unbarr’d</p><p>Rowan Mckenzie</p><p>11 Healing through the Mahabharata</p><p>Kavita Arora and Raghu Ananthanarayanan</p><p>12 <em>We're going on a Bear Hunt</em>: Neuro-dramatic Play, Multi-Sensory Informed, Storytelling Approaches to Working with Children Under Five. </p><p>Clive Holmwood</p><p>13 Myth – Drama- Narrative- Performance</p><p>Stelios Krasanakis</p><p>14 Creativity and Power in Sicilian Spirit: The Stories of Giufa, The Wise and The Fool.</p><p>Salvo Pitruzzella</p><p>Part 3 Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Educational, Social and Community Contexts</p><p>Introduction to Part 3</p><p>15 The Use of Storytelling as a Pedagogic Tool in the English Language Classroom </p><p>Sarah Telfer</p><p>16 Callers and Hearers: Song, Orality, Orature and Aurality in African theatre performance</p><p>Vincent Meyburgh, Ntombi Mkhasibe and Joce Engelbrecht</p><p>17 Beyond the Happy Ever Afters: how stories in a local English theatre can impact on their audiences</p><p>Richard Vergette</p><p>18 The Cypriot story</p><p>Seniha Naşit Gürçağ</p><p>19 A Personal Journey to <em>The Clever Mountain Girl</em></p><p>Lenka Fisherová, Ilona Labuťová</p><p>20 Changing the world through stories of change: the work of OpenStoryTellers 2004-2019</p><p>Nicola Grove, Alice Parsley, Clemma Lewis and Robin Meader</p><p>21 From Isolation to Integration and Advocacy: Healing and Empowerment through Storytelling</p><p>Lani Peterson</p><p>22 Seeking a common ground: Storytelling and Social Healing</p><p>Inger Lise Oelrich</p><p>23 'Janare’ and ‘caporabballi’: The magic and splendour of Irpinia through stories of witches, dance leaders and sacred pigs.</p><p>Josephine F Discepolo Ahmadi</p><p>24 Adapting Oral Tales for the Moral Transformation of the Developing Child and Youths: Adapting Yomandene and the Stubborn Son from Tale to Play</p><p>Victor Jong Taku</p><p>Part 4 - Stories & Therapeutic Texts in Health and Therapy Contexts</p><p>Introduction to Part 4</p><p>25 The Body Politic: An account of a therapeutic storytelling practice with torture survivors and their families</p><p>Sharon Jacksties</p><p>26 I believe in unicorns …</p><p>Silviana Bonadei </p><p>27 Clay Stories, Crafting Spirit and Soul</p><p>Lynne Souter-Anderson</p><p>28 'Metamyth Therapy through the Arts in Museums' ©: A Personal Journey Through Story</p><p>Thalia Valeta</p><p>29 Stories in crisis and Traumatic situations</p><p>Mooli Lahad</p><p>30 The Laying on of Ears</p><p>Mary Louise Chown</p><p>31 Storytelling and Play - How storytelling and play can be used therapeutically with people with a learning disability.</p><p>Jem Dick</p><p>32 A trans-cultural perspective on life story therapy with adoptive foster and kinship families, using the "Theatre of Attachment" model </p><p>Joan Moore</p><p>33 Fostering Storytellers: Helping Foster Carers to build attachments and enhance emotional literacy through stories and oral storytelling.</p><p>Steve Killick </p><p>34 The power of storytelling for people living with dementia</p><p>Alice Liddell Allen</p><p>35 Exploring the dynamics of story in dementia research: storytelling constructs that support people with dementia to share their experiences of what it means to live with dementia </p><p>Alison Ward</p><p>36 Zen Stories To Inspire Imagination In A Client With Vascular Dementia</p><p>Ravindra Ranasinha</p><p>Part 5 - Stories </p><p>37 An International Story Anthology</p><p>Sharon Jacksties </p><p>38 Everything That We Can Remember: How to create a safe environment through a poetic story - an Introduction to <em>Forest of Lost Memories</em></p><p>Alenka Vidrih</p><p>The Forest Of Lost Memories ©</p><p>Katja Gorečan</p><p>Afterword</p><p>Appendix</p>