Publications

The Terpsichore/Sesame DVDs are now ready and are available by mail order from the Sesame Institute office.

The three DVDs are

1. The Making of Sesame - £10 + p&p                              This DVD is an interview with Marian (Billy) Lindkvist.  Billy answers questions on the Sesame approach - and Movement with Touch among other topics.
2. A short Introduction to Drama and Movement Therapy - £10 + p&p. This DVDs is intended for practitioners who want to provide a visual introduction to Sesame Dramatherapy, geared at service purchasers and funders. It includes short interviews and moments from sessions. 
3. An Introduction to Drama and Movement Therapy - £12 + p&p
   This DVD is a longer introduction to Sesame, outlining the key components of the approach – Drama, Myths, Movement and Movement with Touch. It includes interviews and shows experiential sessions.

The Sesame Institute would like to thank the Terpsichore Trust for the DVD grant which made this project possible, and to the DVDs Director Shinta Hermanns and her partner David Summer for their genius  in creating each of these Sesame resources.

HOW TO ORDER: Please contact the Sesame Office on 020 7633 9690 or email info@sesame-institute.org

The Sesame Institute also produces printed literature for use in research and enquiry.

For a full list of publications, click here.

For details of how to order, click here.

The following books are also available.

Bring White Beads When You Call on The Healer
Marian R Lindkvist

Bring White Beads, a wonderfully readable book, honours the professional and the general reader by its insights and the author's narrative powers. Her life achievement is SESAME, the highly respected therapy project and organization of the United Kingdom. Across more than forty years she was visionary founder, and Honorary Director. Today Sesame has an excellent training program of positive benefits to innumerable patients around the globe. This book documents her pioneering work in dramatherapy, from her carefully crafted therapeutic achievements in the UK to her exploration of healing rituals in South Africa.

The Sesame office is the only outlet for this publication.

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Book Price £20, Postage & Packing £3 (UK only), Total £23.

Discovering The Self through Drama & Movement - The Sesame Approach
Edited by Jenny Pearson
July 1996: 350 pages, illustrated ISBN 1 85302 384 1

This is the first detailed account of the theory and practice of the Sesame Method, which was created by Marian Lindkvist 30 years ago, as it has evolved and been handed down experientially. It is now taught at the Central School of Speech and Drama; many of the contributors are current or former teachers at the school, or are Sesame trained therapists working in the field. Jenny Pearson trained as a drama and movement therapist on the Sesame Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama and is now a tutor there. She also trained in psychodynamic counselling at Westminster Pastoral Foundation, and is now in private practice.

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Book Price £20, Postage & Packing £3 (UK Second Class) Total price £23.

Archive material held in the Sesame office
(Please note that if you wish to read any of the documents in the following lists you should contact the Sesame Office to arrange to do so)
Articles List
Essay List

Dissertations held by CSSD
(Please note that if you wish to read any of the dissertations listed you should contact the course tutor, Richard Hougham at CSSD)
Dissertation List