Background:Drama therapy as a discipline in clinical and public health areas dates back to movements in the Netherlands,Great Britain and the United States of America in the 1960s.Today,drama therapy comprises a huge ...Background:Drama therapy as a discipline in clinical and public health areas dates back to movements in the Netherlands,Great Britain and the United States of America in the 1960s.Today,drama therapy comprises a huge variety of methods and is applied in numerous medical domains such as psychiatry,pediatrics and neurogeriatrics.Nonetheless,historical and philosophical considerations suggest that at all times dramatic arts have encompassed curative potential and helped to promote mental health.Regarding this perspective,the present article aims to explore the spirit of drama therapy in ancient Chinese and Greek cultures.Methods:Involving cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology,comparative research centred around salutary momentums inhering in drama and dramatic practices in Ancient China and Greece.The entire research process consisted of three phases:(i)screening of ancient Chinese and Greek dramatic rituals and arts to select phenomena and genres with pathological,therapeutic and mental health relevance;(ii)medical ontological processing,in particular from a psychopathological,psychiatric,psychotherapeutic and mental health scientific point of view,to explore and elucidate their curative and preventative features;(iii)transdisciplinary considerations about the evolution of drama therapy,as well as their diverse modes of artistic and medical reasoning.Results:The research process resulted in the identification of five(functional)roots of drama therapy,as well as public health benefits of dramatic arts:(i)dramatic rituals,stage-trance settings and spiritual immersion,(ii)mise-en-scène of divine spheres and alternative worlds,as well as scenic imagination and creative fusion of reality and fantasy,desire and satisfaction,(iii)anthropologic ontology,search of meaning and self-actualisation‘beyond codes and conventions’,(iv)personality traits and differential psychological symbolism,aesthetic self-exploration and auxiliary egos,(v)introjection and role-identity,inventive ways to tackle life problems,‘working through’and catharsis.Conclusion:Interdisciplinary constructivist reasoning suggests that dramatic arts and drama therapy share similar health promoting potential and innate therapeutic power.This calls for further research(i)to explore the entire spectrum of curative factors inhering in dramatic entities,(ii)to explain how drama-based interventions may alleviate mental-health issues alongside culturally sensitive differential diagnostic guidelines,and(iii)to optimise beneficial effects through advanced drama therapeutic settings.The present study suggests that dramatic arts shall also be studied with regard to public health challenges,self-regulation and self-care,mental resilience,well-being and quality of life,and emphatically advocates intensified collaboration between drama theory and drama therapy.展开更多
This study examines the development of Onyeokhak(瘟疫学epidemic medicine),Joseon Korea’s institutionalized,state-led model of epidemic medicine,and evaluates its unique position within the East Asian medical traditio...This study examines the development of Onyeokhak(瘟疫学epidemic medicine),Joseon Korea’s institutionalized,state-led model of epidemic medicine,and evaluates its unique position within the East Asian medical tradition.By analyzing foundational texts such as Donguibogam(「東醫寶鑑」Mirror of Eastern Medicine),Gani Byeokonbang(「簡易辟瘟方」Simplified Formulas for Preventing Epidemic Diseases)and Byeokyeok Sinbang(「辟疫神方」Divine Prescriptions for Preventing Epidemics),this research compares Joseon’s administrative and practical frameworks with the scholar-driven,theoretical evolution of Wen Bing(温病warm disease)studies in China.Unlike the Chinese trajectory,where paradigms shifted through academic contestation,Joseon’s Onyeokhak was forged by government-mandated public health policies.This resulted in simplified and utilitarian manuals that prioritized vernacular accessibility and symptom-centered clinical protocols rather than abstract theoretical depth.The findings reveal that while Onyeokhak originated from bureaucratic necessity,it evolved into a dynamic system through context-sensitive adaptations,such as the exclusion of irrelevant endemic diseases and the implementation of stepwise clinical decision-making procedures.This study highlights the historical diversity of East Asian medicine and proposes that Joseon’s pragmatic,state-centered strategies offer valuable heuristics for modern emergency public health preparedness and risk communication.展开更多
文摘Background:Drama therapy as a discipline in clinical and public health areas dates back to movements in the Netherlands,Great Britain and the United States of America in the 1960s.Today,drama therapy comprises a huge variety of methods and is applied in numerous medical domains such as psychiatry,pediatrics and neurogeriatrics.Nonetheless,historical and philosophical considerations suggest that at all times dramatic arts have encompassed curative potential and helped to promote mental health.Regarding this perspective,the present article aims to explore the spirit of drama therapy in ancient Chinese and Greek cultures.Methods:Involving cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology,comparative research centred around salutary momentums inhering in drama and dramatic practices in Ancient China and Greece.The entire research process consisted of three phases:(i)screening of ancient Chinese and Greek dramatic rituals and arts to select phenomena and genres with pathological,therapeutic and mental health relevance;(ii)medical ontological processing,in particular from a psychopathological,psychiatric,psychotherapeutic and mental health scientific point of view,to explore and elucidate their curative and preventative features;(iii)transdisciplinary considerations about the evolution of drama therapy,as well as their diverse modes of artistic and medical reasoning.Results:The research process resulted in the identification of five(functional)roots of drama therapy,as well as public health benefits of dramatic arts:(i)dramatic rituals,stage-trance settings and spiritual immersion,(ii)mise-en-scène of divine spheres and alternative worlds,as well as scenic imagination and creative fusion of reality and fantasy,desire and satisfaction,(iii)anthropologic ontology,search of meaning and self-actualisation‘beyond codes and conventions’,(iv)personality traits and differential psychological symbolism,aesthetic self-exploration and auxiliary egos,(v)introjection and role-identity,inventive ways to tackle life problems,‘working through’and catharsis.Conclusion:Interdisciplinary constructivist reasoning suggests that dramatic arts and drama therapy share similar health promoting potential and innate therapeutic power.This calls for further research(i)to explore the entire spectrum of curative factors inhering in dramatic entities,(ii)to explain how drama-based interventions may alleviate mental-health issues alongside culturally sensitive differential diagnostic guidelines,and(iii)to optimise beneficial effects through advanced drama therapeutic settings.The present study suggests that dramatic arts shall also be studied with regard to public health challenges,self-regulation and self-care,mental resilience,well-being and quality of life,and emphatically advocates intensified collaboration between drama theory and drama therapy.
文摘This study examines the development of Onyeokhak(瘟疫学epidemic medicine),Joseon Korea’s institutionalized,state-led model of epidemic medicine,and evaluates its unique position within the East Asian medical tradition.By analyzing foundational texts such as Donguibogam(「東醫寶鑑」Mirror of Eastern Medicine),Gani Byeokonbang(「簡易辟瘟方」Simplified Formulas for Preventing Epidemic Diseases)and Byeokyeok Sinbang(「辟疫神方」Divine Prescriptions for Preventing Epidemics),this research compares Joseon’s administrative and practical frameworks with the scholar-driven,theoretical evolution of Wen Bing(温病warm disease)studies in China.Unlike the Chinese trajectory,where paradigms shifted through academic contestation,Joseon’s Onyeokhak was forged by government-mandated public health policies.This resulted in simplified and utilitarian manuals that prioritized vernacular accessibility and symptom-centered clinical protocols rather than abstract theoretical depth.The findings reveal that while Onyeokhak originated from bureaucratic necessity,it evolved into a dynamic system through context-sensitive adaptations,such as the exclusion of irrelevant endemic diseases and the implementation of stepwise clinical decision-making procedures.This study highlights the historical diversity of East Asian medicine and proposes that Joseon’s pragmatic,state-centered strategies offer valuable heuristics for modern emergency public health preparedness and risk communication.
