PSYCHODRAMA OF ADDICTEDNESS

Abstract

My experience in psychotherapy of the addicted at the House of
Detention for Women in New York City was a psychodrama performed spontaneously by the inmates who acted out the roles of the pusher and the addict trading heroine on the street.
After this they staged a family gathering presumably in the home of one of the addicted women, parents, brothers and sisters, neighbors and one mysterious being "the criminologist," all waiting to hear the story of addiction of one of their own.