The center
The Center of Personal Development through Art was founded in 1998 by Fofi Trigazi. After 20 years of operation in the Mental Health sector it was renamed Center for Psychotherapy through Art Connective Drama (CePsyArt Connective Drama).
CePsyArt Connective Drama provides services to children, adolescents, grown-ups, couples, families and professional groups.
The core of its Therapeutic Approach is Drama Therapy, Play Therapy and the Psychodynamic Approach to Psychotherapy.
It also provides Creative Supervision to Mental Health Professionals, by supporting the professional’s development in every stage of his professional path.
CePsyArt Connective Drama also aims at the amplification and Development of this relationship and the connection of therapies through art. This idea was based on the thought that, although Therapies through art are separate scientific branches, their common reference and connection point is that the starting point of Art is man’s need for expression, and that all humans without any preparation have the ability to express themselves creatively.
Connective
It is derived from the word “connect”.
• That which may really or associatively contribute to the union, connection or linking of two or more objects, persons, ideas or situations.
• It implies every network one may belong to.
• As a connective verb it functions as a link or bridge between subject and object in order to define or to attribute properties and characteristics to the subject.
• In neurobiology neurotransmitters connect one neuron to the next and serve for the transmission and flow of information.
• In the body the connective tissue keeps organs in their place, but also links them to tissue of different types. It contributes in this way to the connection of the internal structure, but above all to the support of the whole body.
Drama
It is derived from the Greek word δρω (dro) = to act.
• In classical Greece it meant the action on the stage and in the theater and its content was the “happening”.
• A theater play in verse based on dialogue, music and dance and the corresponding literary genre to which tragedy, comedy and satirical drama belong.
• In everyday life we use the word “drama” to describe the existential crisis in relationships, excessive sentimental implication, the problem, immobilization due to psychological drama, freezing, and stalemate.
• In Drama Therapy, drama as the first word in the name, implies that Drama is going to be used aiming at the therapy.
Sources: Dictionary of Modern Greek Language, Babiniotis
English Dictionary of Contemporary For Advanced Learners Longman