Psychodrama and Trauma: Implications for Future Interventions of Psychodramatic Role-Playing Modalities
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The author highlights points emerging from 4 recent articles on the use of psychodrama in the treatment of trauma survivors. He reflects on the salient characteristics of the interventions described, giving attention to their implications for the future, and discusses the place of psychodrama in the growing trend in psychotherapy that focuses on designing disorder-specific treatments. The characteristics discussed are the effect(s) of theories other than J. L. Moreno's (e.g., 1964) on the future practice of psychodrama, the benefit of incorporating alternative psychological theories accounting for the effectiveness of the method, the importance of the elements of experiencing and enactment in present and future psychodrama-based models, the centrality of the double technique, the advantage of using manuals for treatment, time-limited models, and the transient quality of role playing and the
meaning of that.
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