Referring to an "old" story. Drama therapy with chronic mentally ill patients
Text



Uploaded: June 2015, Issue 27
 

Maria Pantelaki

Psychiatric nurse, systemic therapist, drama therapist

 

Abstract

A description of the process and the course of a Dramatherapy Group which was created for 18 chronic psychiatric patients, who having been obliged to stay for many years in “Leros’ Hospital” were transferred to 3 hostels in Thessaloniki, in 1992, within the context of The Greek Mental Health Reform and the Programs of Social Rehabilitation of The Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki, N. Greece.