Publications

Veterans Find A Path to Healing Through Shakespeare

In-Press

Ali, A. & Wolfert, S. (in press). Treating trauma through the imagination: Therapeutic effects of simulation and mimetic induction. In L. Green (Ed.), Mutual Aid, Peer Support, and Other Radical Models of Mental Health. North Atlantic Books.

Ali, A., Wolfert,. S., Lam, I., Fahmy, P. & Chaudry, A. (in press). Psychotherapeutic processes in recovery from military and pre-military trauma in veterans: The effects of theatre as a mental health treatment. Journal of Applied Arts and Health.

2019

Ali, A., Wolfert, S., Fahmy, P., Nayyar, M., & Chaudhry, A. (2019). The therapeutic effects of imagination: Investigating mimetic induction and dramatic simulation in a trauma treatment for military veterans. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 62, 7-11.

Ali, A., Wolfert, S. & Homer, B. D. (2019). In the service of science: Veteran-led research in the investigation of a theatre-based posttraumatic stress disorder treatment. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167819839907

Howes, R. (2019, January/February). Point of View – Theater as therapy: Can Shakespeare heal the trauma of war?. Psychotherapy Networker.

2018

Wolfert, S. & Ali, A. (2018). Re-humanization through communalized narrative for military veterans. In N. Way, A. Ali, C. Gilligan, & P. Noguera (Eds.), The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Strategies, and Solutions. New York: New York University Press.

Ali, A., Wolfert, S., McGovern, J. E., Nguyen, J. & Aharoni, A. (2018). A trauma-informed analysis of monologues constructed by military veterans in a theater-based treatment program. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1-16.

Ali., A., Wolfert, S. & Homer, B. D. From victimization to empowerment: Using communalized narration to address military sexual trauma. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology, Philadelphia, PA, Mar 8-11, 2018.

Ali, A., Wolfert, S., Lam, I. & Rahman, T. (2018). Intersecting modes of aesthetic distance and mimetic induction in therapeutic process: Examining a drama-based treatment for military-related traumatic stress. Drama Therapy Review, 4(2), 153-165.

Ali, A., Wolfert, S., McGovern, J. E., Nguyen, J. & Aharoni, A. (2018). A trauma-informed analysis of monologues constructed by military veterans in a theatre-based treatment program. Qualitative Research in Psychology.

2017

McGovern, J. E., Ali, A., Wolfert, S. & Nguyen, J. (2017). Examining process and outcome in the experiences of military veterans in a theatre-based trauma treatment program. Presented in the 2017 Annual Applied Psychology Research Day Conference, New York, NY.

2016

Ali, A. & Wolfert, S. (2016). Theatre as a treatment for posttraumatic stress in military veterans. The Arts in Psychotherapy.