psychodrama

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Some confusion is understandable in our region as some practitioners of playback also do psychodrama, and Boughton Place in Highland hosts monthly public sessions of both.

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  1. noun A psychotherapeutic technique in which people are assigned roles to be played spontaneously within a dramatic context devised by a therapist in order to understand the behavior of people with whom they have difficult interactions.
  2. noun A dramatization in which this technique is employed.
  3. noun An event, social interaction, or narrative that manifests psychological forces or problems: "In [Pierre, Melville] abruptly reinvents himself as a domestic novelist, proposing to write a psychodrama of family intimacy” (Richard H. Brodhead).

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  • Mr. Dougherty couldn't decide whether he was writing a high-camp comedy or a psychodrama about gender issues. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 01 - July 1994
  • Maybe he liked to work out an elaborate little psychodrama, maybe he had a protracted affair with a victim first. —  DanceattheSlaughterhouse
  • Playback theatre and psychodrama-often confused with each other by the uninitiated-both evolved here, and each thrives locally and worldwide as well. —  Chronogram Articles and Blogs
  • Some confusion is understandable in our region as some practitioners of playback also do psychodrama, and Boughton Place in Highland hosts monthly public sessions of both. —  Chronogram Articles and Blogs
  • From the prologue of Vellum to the epilogue of Ink that emotional plotline is a sort of … secret heart of it all, actually, the entire work readable as a psychodrama of a shattered soul, its archetypes in turmoil. —  Notes From The Geek Show
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