Psychodrama and its related methods are designed to cultivate and utilize creativity in psychotherapy, education, and other contexts. Also, psychodrama is unique among the psychotherapies in its capacity to address the widest range of issuues: past, p...
Psychodrama and its related methods are designed to cultivate and utilize creativity in psychotherapy, education, and other contexts. Also, psychodrama is unique among the psychotherapies in its capacity to address the widest range of issuues: past, presents, and future; intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group dynamics; support, education, expression, and insight; imagination and reality; emotions and cognition; spiritual, artistic, playful, and political aspects; prevention, diagnosis, and treatment; nonverbal communications.
Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy in which patients enact the relevant events in their lives instead of simply talking about them. Although psychodrama is usually used in a group setting and can be a very useful method to catalyze group process, it should not be thought of being essen디ally a form of group psychotherapy.
Psychodrama was originated in 1921 by Jacob L. Moreno, M.D.(l 889-1974). Moreno's work because of his ideas about the essence of healing of both individuals and communities have continuing relevance today.
Psychodrama can refer to both a specific therapeutic method and also the use of a wider variety of techniques that have applications in therapy, business, and education, as well as in manly other areas. ln addition, there are theoretical principles that may be used to address the needs of a broad spectrum of issues. ln this sense, psychαirama is analogous to the way psychoanalysis is both specific technique of πeatrnent and an orientation to dynamic depth psychology.