Psychodrama is a therapy technique that offers the individual the opportunity to stage their problems rather than just talking about them. It is a spiritual development/treatment approach that takes advantage of spontaneity. In the psychodrama stage, people can bring some events they have experienced in the past, as well as their dreams, dreams about the future, and even deja-vu experiences or hallucinations. One of the most effective benefits that psychodrama offers by staging these experiences is the ability to concretize inner experiences. These inner experiences may be related to events that occurred in the past, or they may be related to experiences that have never occurred yet. In other words, it may be something that happened in the past regarding your mother or father, or it may be related to a reality that you will have to experience years later. For example, psychodrama is a life in which a protagonist's reasons for constantly conflicting with his mother can be concretized through scenes from his past life, as well as his anxiety about losing his father by going to the future and concretizing the reasons for this.
To J. Moreno, the founder of Psychodrama. According to him, every reality experienced for the second time is salvation from the first one. Experiencing a reality for the second time enables you to take control of that reality. In other words, some facts experienced for the first time take control of the person and may cause psychological trauma; However, when these events are staged for the second time on the psychodrama stage, the person can now take this traumatic situation under his own control. Thus, the damage that these events will cause to the person will leave behind the difficulty in his daily life.
Psychodrama integrates cognitive analysis methods with experiential and participatory dimensions. In addition to group therapy opportunities, it also uses behavior in therapy. The most important benefit of psychodrama is that it transforms the individual's impulses that force him to "act-out" into "acting-in" in a constructive way by giving him insight. Through Acting-in, the individual becomes aware of many dimensions of individual experience (spontaneity, creativity, drama, humor, acting, ceremony, dance, body movements, physical contact, fantasy, nonverbal communications, and a wide repertoire of roles) that have been neglected in our contemporary, hyper-rational society. can meet again. contemporary education and the main purpose of psychotherapy is to integrate our emotions, sensations and imagination with our existence.
There are three basic techniques used in picodrama.
1. Matching: Expressing the protogonist's feelings and thoughts by the leader or group members.
2. Role changing: The protogonist replaces that role by entering the roles related to the topic being discussed, one by one.
3. Mirror: The protogonist observes the subject discussed on stage from the outside.
A psychodrama session consists of 3 phases. Warm-up, game, sharing.
Warm-up: The group and the protogonist are ready and willing for the work to be done.
Game: The work is done.
Sharing: At the end of the work, all members to come together and give feedback on the work done.
The techniques and stages given superficially as basic information here are effective tools in the psychodrama stage to take the individual to his own reality that he has never been aware of. For psychodrama, where it is possible to bring every situation to the stage, Moreno says to Freud when he meets him; “You say you analyze people's dreams. "I give people the courage to dream," he says.
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