PSYCHIATRIST AND NURSE AS CO-THERAPISTS IN A PSYCHODRAMA GROUP

Abstract

For about six months now, we have been conducting a psychodrama therapy group; we, being a psychiatric nurse, Dorothy Dix, R.N., M.A., and myself, a psychiatrist. Both of us attended the summer course at Beacon together and were convinced from personal experience of the therapeutic value of psychodrama. Prior to this, Miss Dix and I had worked together in a group experience for undergraduate nurses as a part of their teaching program in Mental Health