Susana Pendzik (PhD, RDT) is an experienced drama-therapist, trained in San Francisco, CA. She is a Registered Drama Therapist at NADTA (North American Drama Therapy Association), a founder and honorary member of the Swiss Dramatherapy Association, and an accredited supervisor by I.C.E.T. (Israeli Association of Creative and Expressive Therapies). She is the Head of the Graduate Program in Drama Therapy and a Senior Lecturer at Tel Hai Academic College in Galilee, lecturing also at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as at the Dramatherapy Institute of Switzerland. She helped to found a Diploma on Theatre as a Healing Agent at the Universidad Veracruzana, in Xalapa, Mexico, of which she is also a lecturer.Born in Argentina, Susana has lived in Mexico, and the U.S.A. and conducts workshops worldwide. She is a mother, a poet, a theatre director, and a researcher. She is the author of many articles on drama therapy, a book for using action techniques with abused women, co-editor of the volume Assessment in Drama Therapy (2012), and of the book The Self in Performance, which will be published this year by Palgrave McMillan.Specialties: Drama Therapy, Clinical Work with Groups and Individuals; Supervision, Training, and Research; Assessment in Drama Therapy; Therapeutic theatre; Autobiographical Theatre; Women/Gender Issues, Cultural Identity.