FIRST LESSON IN PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

If there is any way that I can assist young people as they go through the agonies of growing up, then I will do it. Surely this time of searching for self identity must be the most difficult period that we have to contend with. Like most young people my search for myself was a slow and painfully difficult process. Not just for myself was it so-but for my family and friends also, who could only sit on the sidelines and watch the action going on. My philosophy of life was to disbelieve anything that was uttered or had been uttered by anyone in authority, and to blatantly disregard any attempts to direct me. It did not matter if the intentions were well meant or not. The wilder my schemes of rebellion, the more popular I was with my friends. But there came a time of self-searching and a time of realising that life really must have more depth to it than I was giving it credit for. Through psychodrama my understanding of myself was more complete and full, in a much shorter time than it could otherwise ever have been.