The Living Spirit of the Psychodramatic Method

Abstract

This book is about connection in its broadest sense, linking the reader's inquiring spirit to the authors' and their group's experiences at a three-day training event. The book is about the psychodramatic method as lived by a master director and trainer of psychodramatists. The authors report the moment-to-moment interactions among the director and the group, the camera videographers, and the interviewer or coproducer. The book is an illustration of the maxim that psychodrama directors-in-training fall asleep each night and wake to each morning to the refrain, "Show me, don't tell me." One hundred and thirty-four color photographs, taken from the videotaped sessions, help connect the reader to the dramatic action through verbatim reflections that tell the stories of the group members, their trainer, and their parallel, and not so parallel, lives.