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Creative Arts and Somatic Therapies
Published in Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews, Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
Tricia L. Chandler, Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, M. A. Lawless Coker
Psychodrama is a useful strategy in group therapy or family therapy that can be used with adolescents or adults in rehabilitation, inpatient, or outpatient therapy settings. Often memories emerge, and insights are gained from reenacting family dynamics through role play. This is an extraordinary process to work through childhood issues involving family dynamics, as well as practicing strategies to improve communication with family members while releasing body memories as well.
Where lies the danger? A psychodrama approach
Published in David Jones, Working with Dangerous People, 2018
It was important for Roy to return to the scene of childhood to address his mother, but in a way it was not possible for him to do so then. In the psychodrama he became angry and tearful. It was equally important for him to understand his own actions arising out of distorted cognitions and motivations. Roy needed to differentiate between anger at mother from present anger at other and self for maintaining belief systems developed in the past and transferred onto his victim. ‘Self criticism of one’s own actions can only follow if these actions are accessible or reportable.’13 Psychodrama provides an arena for this to happen by the use of such techniques as mirroring, doubling and concretisation. As the psychodrama came to its conclusion, Roy knelt down by his victim, having understood his own process by which he had come to kill her. He acknowledged his actions and how she had become an innocent victim of his own unresolved issues and begged her forgiveness. Sadly too late for his victim, but when he returned to the scene with his girlfriend he brought together both the affective and cognitive elements of the enactment sequence in order to integrate the work that had taken place and explored new ways of dealing with the situation. This element of the psychodrama is known as role training.
Creative, Imaginal, and Emotional Aspects of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Published in Marcia L. Rosal, Cognitive-Behavioral Art Therapy, 2018
According to D. Edwards (2007), imagery as part of CBT was informed by several psychotherapeutic traditions familiar to the art therapist, including those espoused by Anna Freud, Piaget, Moreno, and Perls. For example, D. Edwards (2011) found that Moreno’s psychodrama had several commonalities with the use of imagery in treatment. In psychodrama, the patient acts out scenes to expose specific details of difficult experiences. The scenes begin with memories and the mental images associated with problematic situations, and are then played out in front of the psychodrama group.
Psychodrama as a new intervention for reducing fear of childbirth: a randomised controlled trial
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Fadime Bayrı Bingöl, Meltem Demırgoz Bal, Melike Dişsiz, Meltem Taylan Sormageç, Büşra Özlükan Çimen
A psychodrama is an experiential form of therapy that integrates philosophical, sociological, and psychological theories with spontaneity and creativity to encourage participants to develop new perspectives. This method offers an interactive means of exploring potentially difficult issues and emotions through role playing and guided small group discussion (Altinay 2015). Research of the effectiveness of psychodrama has demonstrated increased self-awareness and empathy skills in the participants (Dogan 2018), as well as psychological enpowerment, and reduced burnout (Özbaş and Tel 2016). A systematic review noted decreased fear, loneliness, hopelessness, aggression, anxiety, and depression, and greater problem-solving ability, overall quality of life, spontaneity, and social functions (Orkibi and Feniger-Schaal 2019).
Group psychodrama for children with leukemia: A brief report
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2022
Mehdi Purrezaian, Hoda Purrezaian
Moreno’s therapeutic work which was developed in 19211 as “psychodrama” was actually inspired by improvizational play with groups of children.1,2 psychodrama uses guided role-play to work on the patient’s personal and interpersonal problems and gives them possible solutions through actions rather than words alone.3 Role-play is a form of behavioral simulation that can be a way of learning and dramatic reviewing.4–7 Psychodrama has several techniques such as soliloquy, self-presentation, self-realization, double, mirroring, role-reversal, future projection, empty chair, magic shop, surplus reality, etc.8,9 Warming-up, creativity, spontaneity, encounter, tele, co-conscious and co-unconscious, role, role vs. ego, role reversal, and action are the key concepts of psychodrama.10
Psycho-art-drama: development and testing a new integrated complementary method of psychiatric treatments for hospitalised children with cancer (a case study)
Published in International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2020
Hoda Purrezaian, Mohammad Ali Besharat, Leili Koochakzadeh, Hojjatollah Farahani
On the other hand, Psychodrama is an experiential psychotherapy in which clients use guided role-play to work on their personal and interpersonal problems and possible solutions through actions rather than words alone (Corey 2011; Moreno et al. 2013; Moreno 2014; Enelow 2015; Orkibi and Feniger-Schaal 2019). Specific psychodrama techniques such as soliloquy (a monologue of the protagonist/patient in which she/he represents her/his hidden thoughts and feelings, parallel with overt thoughts and actions), doubling (placing side by side with the patient and trying to establish her/his identity—verbally and behaviourally—in order to discover the unknown problems), mirroring (copying a patient's behaviour patterns by the therapist or auxiliary ego when he or she is unable to perform the role on the stage), role-reversal (patient’s exchanging roles with the other persons to see the self from outside and the position of the other) and empty chair (putting an empty chair on the stage to give the patient a chance to talk to anyone or something that is not present right now) (Moreno 1966; Cruz et al. 2018) are special templates for emotional, behavioural and cognitive catharsis. Catharsis, as a concept, was introduced by Aristotle to express the peculiar effect of the Greek drama on the spectators. Moreno recognised that there are three basic forms of mental catharsis, in the psychodrama: the one in the protagonist, the other in the auxiliary egos and the third one in the audience which co-experiences the events. So, all the individuals involved in the session have to be considered in the treatment (social and network catharsis). Creative catharsis, intellectual and analytic catharsisas well as social and network catharsis may each play a role in the different stages of the psychodrama (Cukier 2007). Despite these unique catharsis types as healing qualities, the psychodrama has been used very few in hospital settings (Grange-Segeral and Griot 2012; Iren Akbiyik et al. 2012; Lamiani et al. 2016; Menichetti et al. 2016).