What is drama therapy?

Armand Volkas

Armand's summary here.

Drama therapy, psychodrama and sociodrama: why and how they came into being, how they are related to each other, who started these therapies, etc.

(Writing level: same level of writing as on the rest of the website.)
Any references would need source links in the summary. Of course, expression of your professional experience as drama therapist is also encouraged.

Armand's Healing the Wounds of History website

Some notes:

"Drama Therapy is an active, experiential approach to facilitating change. Through storytelling, projective play, purposeful improvisation, and performance, participants are invited to rehearse desired behaviors, practice being in relationship, expand and find flexibility between life roles, and perform the change they wish to be and see in the world." http://www.nadta.org/

"Unlike talk therapy, drama therapy gets there really fast. Role-playing -acting out issues and problems - is more effective than talking." - Robert Landy, PhD, RDT/BCT, Director Drama Therapy Program, New York University http://www.nadta.org/

"In the aftermath of September 11th, I witnessed the enormous benefits of these modalities [creative arts therapies] in helping people to express their emotions and have seen Capital Hill exhibits illustrating the meaningful gains through artistic process." - Hilary Rodham Clinton
http://www.nadta.org/

"...there can be no political solutions to intercultural conflict until we understand and take into consideration the needs, emotions and unconscious drives of the human being." - Armand Volkas