Classical and Contemporary Psychodrama: A Multifaceted, Action-Oriented Psychotherapy
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This article is an introduction to a series of articles on new models of psychodrama. The author discusses recent trends in the development of group psychotherapy and examines psychodrama's position relative to the new, emerging realities. The author also identifies a number of issues that alternative models for the intervention procedure of psychodrama might address: psychodrama and a system of psychotherapy vs. a system of psychopathology, the ability of the models to generate prediction, the structure of the session vs. that of the entire treatment, types of the "here-and-now," boundaries, and misguided tele (transference and countertransference).
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