A Survey of Clinical Reports on the Application of Psychodrama
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applications of psychodramaAbstract
The authors selected 34 case illustrations of psychodrama for a review of the characteristics of that intervention modality. From the data, they concluded that, in general, the practice is consistent with the theoretical model. The main features of psychodrama are that its sessions are based on role playing enactment, that the focus is on one protagonist, and that the basic unit of the intervention is the structure of the single session. The authors suggest that conceptualizing the treatment as a series of successive single sessions, each repeated many times with different protagonists, may place the methods in an ideal position to be easily incorporated into other traditional and modem forms of group psychotherapy.
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