List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part 1 Contexts 1 Changing Minds and Minding the Gap: Interactions between Arts and Science Nicola Shaughnessy and Philip Barnard 2 Imagining An/Other: Histories, Theories and Theatres of Mind through the Mirrors of Hamlet Nicola Shaughnessy 3 Paying Attention to Meanings in the Psychological Sciences and the Performing Arts, Philip Barnard Part 2 Interdisciplinary Perspectives 4 Evaluating Atypical Imagination and Cognition: Working in the Arts/Science Interspace, Ilona Roth 5 The Wind and the Rain: Facing Dementia in Lear/Cordelia and The Garden Robert Shaughnessy 6 ‘Her painful legs joined in the conversation’ Dramatherapy and the Space Before and Beyond the Talking Cure Emma Brodzinsky Part 3 Practices and Responses 7 Where is her Mind? Space, Feminism and Mental Illness in Plays by Sarah Daniels and Sarah Kane Christopher Dingwall-Jones A Response Incomprehensibility and Mutual Recovery Paul Crawford 8 A Cry Without an Echo: Consciousness, Creativity and the Healing work of the Arts Ellen W. Kaplan A Response Artistic Healing and the Overcoming of Rehabilitation Paradigms Fabiola Camuti 9 Autism and Affect in Post-Realist Theatre, Marla Carlson A Response Scientific Truth, Artistic Licence, Fiction and Reality Thalia R Goldstein Part 4 Changing Minds 10 Reflections on The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland: A conversation between David Woods and Jon Haynes of Ridiculusmus with commentary by Richard Talbot. 11 Re: Creating Psychiatry through Participatory Performance: Playing On Theatre and Mental Health Acts Nicola Shaughnessy, Jim Pope, Phil Osment and Hugh Grant-Peterkin Epilogue: Nicola Shaughnessy Notes Bibliography Index

With each chapter presenting various case studies in relation to topics such as madness, autism, dementia, trauma, and psychotherapy, this collection excels at presenting a wide range of approaches to reading performance in relation to how the mind makes meaning out of lived experience, focusing on marginalized psychological states in relation to performance, therapy, and applied theatre.

This book explores interfaces between performance, psychology and neuroscience , investigating how performance practices access the hard to reach areas of human experience with particular reference to imagination, perception and conditions of the mind.

Exploring the interactions between science and performance, the series provides readers with a unique guide to current practices and research in this fast-expanding field. Through shared themes and case studies, the series offers rigorous vocabularies and methods for empirical studies of performance, with each volume being a collaboration between performance scholars, practitioners and scientists. The series encompasses the multi modalities of performance to include drama, dance and music.