PSYCHODRAMA AND THE BLIND

Abstract

In the majority of the Rehabilitation Centers for the Blind in the United States, some form of group psychotherapy is used. When psychodrama is employed in a few of these Centers, it has been limited to the acting out of superficial, surface problems of individual behavior, rather than looking for unconscious motivations.

Most Centers maintain some type of a group program, which is not Group Psychotherapy .as such, but simmers more of a guidance program. The feeling of these Centers is that they have better attendance in the group sessions if the group is referred to as a social group. The majority of these Centers have a group leader, leading a group that is largely self directed and self oriented. The group handles any problem which may arise. The therapist (leader) does not pry for problems on a deeper and unconscious level.