Drama therapy, like other creative arts therapies,
has attracted a number of different conceptual
frameworks which have been used to organize
complex clinical material and to provide theoretical
coherence to relatively uncharted psychological
territory. These frameworks, nearly all
imported from outside the creative arts themselves,
include psychoanalytic theory, gestalt
therapy, developmental psychology, existential
thought, and Jungian analysis. Each of these perspectives
has contributed greatly toward a fuller
understanding of the therapeutic functions of
drama and action.