AN ATTEMPT TO CATEGORISE CULTURAL VARIABLES IN THE APPLICATION OF PSYCHODRAMATIC TECHNIQUES

Abstract

According to English and English,1 the definition of Psychodrama is: The improvised enactment by a client of certain roles and dramatic incidents, prescribed by the therapist and designed to reveal what certain kinds of social relations really mean to the client. . .". Made quite explicit here is the importance of the therapist's perception: the roles and dramatic incidents are "prescribed" by the therapist, on the basis of what he perceives as disturbing elements in the patient's personality composite. Thus, we may assume the validity of the therapist's initial diagnosis to be positively correlated with the temporal efficiency of the treatment, and to some extent at least, with the final results of the therapy.