Two New Chapters on Trauma

Craig has two new chapters that have been published in recent books on drama therapy and trauma.  “The Imagined Body: Drama Therapy’s Unique Contribution to Trauma Treatment” appears as the first chapter in J. F. Jacques’ Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy, Theatre and Performance. Featuring an international group of contributors, the book was praised by Cathy Malchiodi for setting “a new standard for how psychotherapy can re-sensitize the body to narratives that are at once resilient, reparative, and restorative.”  Craig’s chapter offers a framework for understanding how the integration of imaginative and embodied practices can transform trauma through the mechanism of memory reconsolidation.

Craig has also co-written the chapter “Exquisite Corpse: On Dissociation and the Intersubjectivity of Racialized Trauma in Drama Therapy” with Maria Hodermarska and Lucy McLellan.  It appears in Nisha Sajnani & David Read Johnson’s second edition of Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy: Transforming Clinics, Classrooms & Communities, which features a variety of papers that show how marginalized and oppressed people can be guided toward the creation of healing spaces of possibility.  This chapter in particular is aimed at increasing white therapists’ understanding of racial enactments that arise in treating BIPOC patients.