Anna Chesner is a UK Council for Psychotherapy-registered psychodrama and group analytic psychotherapist and creative supervisor. She has trained arts therapists, integrative counsellors and psychotherapists, and is Co-Director of the London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy. She has written extensively on dramatherapy, psychodrama psychotherapy and creative supervision.

Introduction

Part I: Setting the scene

Chapter 1: Framing creativity

Anna Chesner

Chapter 2: Role theory and role analysis: the bedrock of one-to-one psychodramatic work

Jinnie Jefferies

Chapter 3: Concretisation and playing with perspective

Anna Chesner

Chapter 4: Working with role

Anna Chesner

Chapter 5: Working with addictions: the addictions compass and intergenerational action genogram

Anna Chesner

Chapter 6: Psychodramatic dream work

Anna Chesner

Part II: Case Studies: the method in action

Chapter 7: Understanding the child's voice: a systemic approach to one-to-one psychodrama psychotherapy

Paula Davies

Chapter 8: Our deepest pain: working with shame in individual psychodrama psychotherapy

Anna Napier

Chapter 9: Working with grief and loss

Lydia Mak

Chapter 10: Working psychodramatically with anxiety

Virginie Boury

Chapter 11: One-to-one psychodrama with eating disorders

Eva Koumpli

Chapter 12: Lucy and her secret inner world

Esther Tang

Chapter 13: A brief one-to-one session using role analysis and role theory in a corporate organisation

Maxine Daniels