VARIATIONS ON PSYCHODRAMATIC SHARING

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  • ALTON BARBOUR Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/7ks3sc69

Keywords:

PSYCHODRAMATIC

Abstract

There are a number of purposes which are accomplished simultaneously in psychodramatic sharing other than the most obvious one of closure. Potentially, a great number of needs within the group might be met at that time. The sharing allows the knitting of the past experiences of those in the audience with the past experiences of the protagonist, which were just enacted as if in the present. The group members come to appreciate which of their own past experiences are still unsettled or incomplete to the extent that they are activated by the psychodrama. The psychodrama may reawaken similar troubled areas and past difficulties which can be disclosed in the sharing portion of the psychodrama.

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Dr. Barbours address is 1365 S. Marion St., Denver, Col. 80210.

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2025-01-14

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Vol. 30 (1977): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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