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Volume 35, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0263-0672
  • E-ISSN: 2157-1430

Abstract

This paper expresses some personal thoughts about anger management coupled with references to the story of Peter Pan and how aspects of that story could provide insight when working with familial and peer relationships.

I have been concerned that anger management in its simplest form can be construed as a ‘cure all’ for a client’s behavioural problems whereas dramatherapy can unravel the complex story that produced them and allow an embodied response.

This article looks at some of the reasons that drew me to connect dramatherapy, anger management and family and peer relationships to the story of Peter Pan and how it has guided my work particularly with one individual case.

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