THE DEMOCRATIC ESSENCE OF PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

As psychodrama moves onto the world scene, as it begins to be employed in many cultural settings and to be modified in terms of situational limitations, it is time to take stock of the method's philosophical core in order to insure its integrity. As Margaret Mead has noted, the only real safeguard we have that psychodrama will not be used toward undesirable ends is to show conclusively that the method is essentially democratic in character and that it has built-in "fail-safe" mechanisms which serve to protect it.