HYPNODRAMA AND PSYCHODRAMA

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https://doi.org/10.12926/s8rmfb82

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HYPNODRAMA

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I divide psychiatry into three categories: Confessional psychiatry, Shakespearean psychiatry and Machiavellian psychiatry. An illustration of confessional psychiatry is psychoanalysis. An illustration of Shakespearean psychiatry is psychodrama; it heals and explores the truth by means of dramatic methods. I call it Shakespearean because Shakespeare, more than anyone else, has contributed, not to this form of therapy but to its content. Illustrations of Machia-Vellian psychiatry are electric shock therapy, insulin shock therapy and lobotomy. I call them after Machiavelli because he has advocated the cruelest methods in the government of human affairs, the means being justified by the end.

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2024-11-21

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (1950): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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