THE DIDACTIC AUXILIARY CHAIR

Abstract

Some psychodrama directors are better than others in their ability to teach the methods and concepts of psychodrama at the same time that they are helping a protagonist enact his psychodrama. It is all too easy for the seasoned director to assume a knowledge on the part of the audience that isn't there. He forgets the slow learning process necessary to reach his own level of integration. In his zeal to identify with and assist the protagonist, he may forget the need of the audience to know what is going on and even their desire to know why the director is doing what he is doing.