The power of theater to promote individual recovery and social change

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 306-308

  Faigin, David A ^a   Stein, Catherine H ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODRAMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ESTEEM; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL CHANGE; THEATRICAL EXPRESSION;

EID: 77949364479     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2010.61.3.306     Document Type: Short Survey

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