TOWARDS AN ENACTIVE DRAMA THERAPY: IMPLICATIONS IN THE COUNSELLING OF DISABLED CLIENTS
Rareș Mihnea Iosifescu
Revista Română de Filosofie Analitică May 14, 2026 DOI: 10.62229/rrfaxviii-1/1 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Mental health Drama Cognition Action physics Psychotherapist Developmental psychology Applied psychology |
| Key points | Proposes an enactivism-congruent and affordance-based account of dramatherapy to explain its mechanisms of change and suggests disabled clients may benefit more from such holistic approaches. |
Abstract
Mechanisms of change in dramatherapy are poorly understood, compromising its bona fide therapy status. Given growing attention to how alternative frameworks of cognition might inform mental health practices, I aim to provide an enactivism-congruent and affordance-based account of dramatherapy. A secondary aim is to suggest why disabled or differently abled clients might benefit more from such psychotherapies that veer from a brain-centered approach to a holistic outlook that situates the mind within a dynamical system.