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Mental illness through popular theater: Performing (in)sanely
Author(s) -
Noble Steven E.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.188
Subject(s) - creativity , psychology , transgressive , power (physics) , mental illness , adult education , mental health , aesthetics , pedagogy , social psychology , psychotherapist , art , sedimentary depositional environment , paleontology , physics , structural basin , quantum mechanics , biology
Transgressive and liberatory learning are explored through the creativity of popular theater as adult education when the freedom and power to imagine and raise awareness are placed in the interacting “bodymind” relationships of a group living with multiple psychiatric diagnoses.