Working with Life Scripts

Spontaneity, Surplus Reality, and Personal Change

Authors

  • Marvin Knittel, EdD Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/3b3v9c44

Keywords:

concretize, differentiation, metaphor, role reversal, script, spontaneity, surplus reality

Abstract

This article addresses features of spontaneity, the power of life scripts, and surplus reality. A

psychodrama unfolds wherein Jean, a 22-year-old woman, confronts the issue of being

pulled across the generational boundary by her mother, who has used Jean to solve her

struggles in her marriage as well as stresses in her life. Jean resolves the issue by

disengaging from her mother in a dramatic scene in which the entire group assists by

empowering Jean.

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Published

2026-01-22

Issue

Vol. 63 No. 1 (2015): Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, & Group Psychotherapy

Section

Practitioners' Corner

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