PSYCHODRAMA AND AUDIENCE WITH EMPHASIS ON CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION

Abstract

One aspect of the psychodramatic warm-up that is almost as important to the audience as it is to the patient-protagonist is what Moreno terms simply as the psychiatric interview. In this interview the chief therapist or psychodrama director seeks to get to know the patient and as many facets of his problems in as short a time as possible so that some of the problems or some parts of a problem may be better explored in the subsequent enactment. In the process of becoming acquainted with the patient, the director warms up the audience by having it become passively involved in the patient's problem so that during the ensuing enactment the audience may be more adequately prepared to experience the spontaneity that the director evokes on the stage