Brief Report: Why and When to Use "Hit and Run" Doubling

Abstract

This article is based on my 20 years' experience in directing psychodramas with patients who were hospitalized with a wide variety of diagnoses, including those classed as dual diagnosis adolescents and paranoid schizophrenic adults.
In most of the hospitals, the ratio of floor staff to patients was low; thus, it was a rare occasion when a specific person was regularly assigned to the weekly psychodrama group. I therefore developed the following adaptation of the classic technique of doubling as described by J. L. Moreno (1959).