THE HEART AND SOUL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

About the Book

This book offers an innovative approach to healing

and transformation through application of the

12 transpersonal drama therapy principles. It

demonstrates a host of therapeutic techniques

integrating the arts with meditation as clients

heal traumatic memories and shift their identities

from a conditioned, limited sense of self to the

essential Self, or soul Self. Thirty-nine of Ms.

Linden’s students and colleagues demonstrate

how they have applied the 12 principles to a wide

array of populations in need. Collectively, they

have reached all ages, many diverse backgrounds,

and a range of life circumstances and health

conditions— in private practice, community-based

organizations, institutions, events, disaster relief

and international venues.

Throughout the 30 years of the formal life of

the dramatherapy profession, Saphira and her

colleagues have been gradually building and

developing an integrated, profound, joyous, and

generative practice through Omega Theater’s

Drama Therapy Training Institute, and this book

is a culminating demonstration of this amazing

work and these amazing people. Their work is

built on strong foundations, represented by the

wonderful forwards by Zerka Moreno, Ellen

Burstyn, and Pir Zia Inayat Khan. They are the

roots…Saphira is the trunk… and the chapters

are the bloom, of the transpersonal approach to

psychotherapy integrating the arts. It has been

a privilege for me to witness this process unfold

and now to benefit from the remarkable work

described in this book.

David Read Johnson: Co-founder of Drama

Therapy and North American Drama Therapy

Association

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About the Author

Saphira Barbara Linden, MA, RDT/BCT, TEP, LCAT, has been Artistic Director, Omega Theater/Theater Workshop Boston since 1967 and Director Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy Certificate Program for the past 14 years. Adjunct faculty, Lesley University. Awarded 1st Teaching Excellence award NADTA, “fellow” of ASGPP, studied with Morenos, 1970s. Created numerous award winning plays. Her artistic work, subject of half hour film, PBS series, Artists In America. Trained hundreds of professionals in the arts, mental health, education, organizations/corporations. Transpersonal psychotherapist, Management consultant, Sufi meditation teacher/guide, since 1971. Private practice. Author of numerous articles, chapters about her work. This is first book, editor/author.