A WORKING PAPER FOR GROUP AUXILIARY EGOS
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At the end of a session auxiliaries often ask about what they could have done differently. How could they have played their roles to be more helpful to the protagonist and director? What follows are training concepts for auxiliary egos developed in interaction with the psychodrama staff and patients at St. Elizabeths Hospital, the Directors of the Psychodrama Training Institute of Washington D. C., and Dr. J. L. and Zerka Moreno. The principles presented here cannot be invoked mechanistically but can serve as a structural or functional underpinning for personal involvement.
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