Psychodrama-"Italian Style"

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  • WARREN PARRY Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/agdj5a56

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Psychodrama

Abstract

MY INTRODUCTION TO Italian psychodrama consisted of groping in a dark room and finding familiar things-light switches and dimmers, a raised platform in one corner, mattresses and cushions, and bataka bats. When the light came up, I was standing in a theater with a raised section to the rear with seating levels and a circular carpeted area in the middle. Giovanni Boria, standing at the lights, was grinning with delight as most Italians do when they share something they cherish. This reaction also occurs when they have eaten a beautiful meal or they have been told how wonderful they are. I felt greeted and welcomed in Milan; it was as if we were from the same family and that perhaps Australians are lost relatives of this tribe.

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2025-03-14

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Vol. 41 No. 2 (1988): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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