New Essays in Drama Therapy

"As the author of the twelve essays included in this book written over a period of five years, Robert Landy examines the possibilities of letting go and the notion that by doing so, individuals can move closer to an effective closure. Throughout this book, the assumption is held that an effective closure will come as individual attempt to complete their unfinished business, which Landy defines as the many unresolved, uncomfortable moments that are avoided or denied, that spring from uneasy intimacies and unsatisfactory attachments, from the failure to speak one's mind, to assert one's will, and to acknowledge and correct a real or imagined wrong. Throughout the book, the author plays with some of the intricacies of his three-part model of role, counterrole and guide. To complete unfinished business, the author suggests that individuals need to invoke imagery rich enough in paradox and work with it as long as it takes to integrate role and counterrole by means of an effective guide."--BOOK JACKET.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Mental Health. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.