PSYCHODRAMA IN AN ARMY GENERAL HOSPITAL

Abstract

Psychodramatic techniques were used extensively by this author in the treatment of mental casualties in the Army in an evacuation hospital in Germany and in several general hospitals in this country, and finally at the Brentwood Hospital of the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles. Because of the recent flare-up of hostilities in Korea and the possibility of an extension of this conflict, the availability of psychodramatic techniques for treatment of psychiatric conditions brought on by the war should again be emphasized. For this purpose, the records of a patient who-during the last war-was treated with psychodrama in Army General Hospital (Butner General Hospital, North Carolina) was selected.