ROLE REVERSAL IN A SOVIET PRISON CAMP

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  • HILLEL I. BUTMAN Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/ja6n8351

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CAMP

Abstract

(It is not unusual for role reversal in psychodrama to produce a cri de coeur. And as a technique in literature it has enabled authors
to produce an epiphany. Here, and rarely in any context so eloquently, it has been used as a political instrument in the struggle for human tights.
In 1970, H. I. Butman was sentenced to ten years in prison in the "Second Leningrad Trial" of Soviet Jewish activists. In 1973, his wife, Eva Butman, was given permission to emigrate to Israel. This letter, a copy of what was addressed by Mr. Butman to "Citizen General (Chief of the Perm Administration of Corrective Labor Establishments, USSR-ITK 35) was received by Mrs. Butman and has been made available by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry.-Ed.)

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2025-01-14

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

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