PSYCHODRAMA TIC WAYS OF COPING WITH POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATIONS IN PSYCHOTIC AND NON-PSYCHOTIC POPULATIONS

DONELL MILLER

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How would you feel if one of your colleagues, as protagonist on a psychodrama stage, were to reveal a recent psychotic episode, complete with hallucinations, distortions and delusions? This is what happened at a Beacon seminar some years ago, while I was still a director·in·training. Such "irregular" behavior occurs regularly enough, I have since discovered, that my mentioning the incident today would hardly constitute a breach of confidence or even be a source of embarrassment to the person involved, were he (or she) here now.
Indeed, far from feeling dismay for a friend's indiscretion in telling "too much," I was proud of his trusting us and gratified to know one more psychotherapist capable of appreciating the length, breadth and depth of his patients' troubles. The very next session featured a nurse's re-living on stage a recurrent nightmare.

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PSYCHODRAMA TIC WAYS OF COPING WITH POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATIONS IN PSYCHOTIC AND NON-PSYCHOTIC POPULATIONS

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