This paper gives an account of work that took place in Sicily with a group of clients from a mental health day centre. The Dramatherapy process in set in the context of performance work using Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and the paper explores the significance of theatrical genre and its therapeutic possibilities for both practice and analysis.
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