Surplus Reality and the Experiential Reintegration Model in Psychodrama

DAVID A. KIPPER

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psychodramatic intervention

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In this article, the author describes the principles of the Experiential Reintegration Model (ERM), a new formulation of the therapeutic propensity of psychodramatic and role-playing enactment. The model is based on the premise that psychotherapy aims to provide clients with new experiences, the kind that can substitute for, alter, add to, and replenish previous unsatisfying experiences. Effectiveness of such experiences in the therapist's depends on the similarity of the quality of those experiences to the qualities of experiences that occur naturally in the outside world. That is accomplished through surplus reality, the concept that alters the dimensions of time, space, and reality. The theory of the ERM is that surplus reality is the most therapeutically potent factor in psychodramatic intervention.

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