Why drama and dramatherapy? : finding the thread -- Drama at the centre and drama at the margins : threading our way through -- Processing your own dramatized history : untangling the thread --Transitional dramas : holding onto the thread -- Drama, ritualization and the living of life : the need for knots -- Dramatherapy core concepts : the thread has led us through the maze -- Dramatherapy in practice : who holds the end of the thread? -- A bibliographical muse : hanging by a thread