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Welcome to part three of this online, interactive webinar series, Breaking Inner Chains: Dramatherapy and Personality Disorder. The series explores themes from Nicky Morris's book, Dramatherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Empowering and Nurturing People through Creativity (2018). Each session stands alone and runs from 18:30 to 20:00.

Dancing Between Life and Death: Dramatherapy clients and therapist

Grief will be introduced as an enduring theme that arose on both conscious and unconscious levels within the dramatherapy sessions in the settings explored in sessions 1 and 2. Also, an ambivalence between life and death. Clients struggled with various issues relating to death: many had suicidal thoughts; some had survived suicide attempts and others had friends or family members who had committed suicide or died from natural causes. The emotional pain experienced by clients, whether in response to their past or present, can also have a considerable impact on those working with them. This issue will be explored in relation to personal practice and the complexity of the therapeutic relationship will be considered in relation to attachment and rejection, hope and futility, transference and countertransference. Here, the importance of having regular clinical supervision will be stressed. Finally, a counter theme will be introduced: the suggestion that with belief, hope and courage, individuals can find new meaning in their lives – supported by either individual or group dramatherapy, which has the potential to empower and nurture them. Practical, interactive exercises will be incorporated.