TREATING THE ALCOHOLIC WITH PSYCHODRAMA
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Psychodrama, though but one form of group psychotherapy, has proven to be of great benefit to the alcoholic patient. The flexibility of the phychodrama method and its varied techniques encourages an almost immediate emotional involvement through action and experience which frequently has been difficult to obtain in the diagnosed alcoholic, who is often withdrawn, reticent, hostile, isolated, lonely, angry and in need of social education.
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