Comparing and Using Psychodrama with Family Therapy: Some Cautions

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  • Howard Seeman Author
  • Daniel J. Wiener Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/37szb791

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Cautions

Abstract

The authors discuss some specific confusions that recently have arisen from comparing and concurrently employing psychodrama and family therapy. The article clarifies the following for each of these therapeutic modalities: (a) enactment; (b) planning and directing; (c) being with the client(s); (d) temporality; (e) truth. The authors also provide guidelines for therapists who use these modalities concurrently in their work.

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2025-03-14

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Vol. 37 No. 4 (1985): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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