Information AboutPsychodrama |
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| role-playing | |
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PSYCHOLOGICAL USES In psychodrama, participants explore internal Conflict s through acting out their emotions and interpersonal interactions on stage. The acting becomes a replacement for the typical 'couch' that Psychotherapist s use to talk to their patients. A given psychodrama session (typically 90 minutes to 2 hours) focuses principally on a single participant, known as the '' Protagonist ''. Protagonists examine their relationships by interacting with the other actors and the leader, known as the ''director''. This is done using specific techniques, including Doubling , Role Reversal s, Mirror s, Soliloquy , and Sociometry . Psychodrama attempts to create an internal restructuring of dysfunctional mindsets with other people, and it challenges the participants to discover new answers to some situations and become more spontaneous and independent. There are over 10,000 practitioners internationally. Although a primary application of psychodrama has traditionally been as a form of group psychotherapy, and psychodrama often gets defined as "a method of group psychotherapy," this does a disservice to the many other uses or functions of the method. More accurately psychodrama is defined as "a method of communication in which the communicator expresses him/her/themselves in action." The psychodramatic method is the source of role-playing widely used in business and industry. Psychodrama offers a powerful approach to teaching and learning, as well as to training interrelationship skills. The action techniques of psychodrama also offer a means of discovering and communicating information concerning events and situations in which the communicator has been involved. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute http://www.hvpi.net |
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