Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 19421
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama
- ISBN
- 9781474260855
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Performing Psychologies focuses on the potential that collaborations between performance-based practices and psychological science have to contribute new understandings of conditions of the mind. The edited volume is co-authored by Shaughnessy with Philip Barnard, an applied scientist (cognitive and behavioural) who has engaged with a range of conditions including depression, schizophrenia and autism. Performing Psychologies is ground-breaking in its approach because it offers practice-based evidence to complement evidence-based practice. There exists a wealth of work in medical humanities and sci-arts showing how arts-based approaches can illustrate science. By contrast, Performing Psychologies features case studies in which embodied creative practices contribute knowledge that would not be possible through the science on its own. It is also distinctive in its theoretical approach, drawing on both cognitive and affect theory. It uses the theoretical model of 4E cognition, understanding the mind as embodied, embedded, extended and enacted through interactions between the environment, social relations and subjectivity, all of which contribute to agency, learning and change. Shaughnessy’s editorial contribution was 70% as the lead editor for parts 3 & 4 and joint editor for part 1.
Shaughnessy also contributes a single authored chapter and two that are co-authored. For both of the co-authored chapters, she was the lead author, collaborating with Barnard on an editorial introduction and with a consultant psychiatrist and the Playing-On Theatre Company for the final chapter. The latter involved a significant amount of field work and introduces a potentially paradigm shifting arts/health intervention in which service-users collaborate with trainee clinicians to produce devised drama about their lived experiences.
It is challenging to get scholars from science-based disciplines to write for arts and humanities publications. Performing Psychologies is significant because it has science-based input through single authored chapters and clinical commentaries on the arts practices.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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