PSYCHODRAMA FOR UNDERGRADUATES: ENTERTAINMENT·OR SELF-KNOWLEDGE?

Abstract

Anticipation of the exciting and exotic in campus entertainment brought me to the first undergraduate course in psychodrama at the University of Cincinnati. On the first day, forty of us were sitting behind the rows of desks in a fairly large, but ordinary, classroom. I was busy laughing and talking with the others and hardly noticed when the professor, Dr. Doris Twitchell- Allen, entered the room. When I heard her asking for the chairs to be pushed against the walls to make a space so that the janitor could place a large oriental carpet in the center of the room, I began to observe her more closely.