We will first open the curtain and discover what the basic elements of psychodrama are. Next we will step out on to the stage …show more content…
Letting yourself explore and sometimes the mere expression of a dilemma can help satisfy one’s own emotional needs. Catharsis is used in psychodrama to not only find comfort by the act of showing your emotions but its underlying values is also promoting active healing. Finding insight the client is able to explore different dimensions of their lives that hadn’t considered before. They can also gain insight by alternative ways to react to a certain situation. Having others in the group share their coping stagiest can help the other clients break pass an impasse. Sometimes seeing someone else psychodrama helps bring about insight about the clients …show more content…
The therapist might ask who else in the past have they had these similar feelings with. This gives them a chance to explore past and presence feelings. Blatner (2000) shares:
‘Clients use psychodramatic techniques in therapy, and they also learn to think as if these approaches were part of their lives. They become more capable of accessing and disclosing a greater breadth of emotional responses, and they learn to empathize with others. In summary, psychotherapy may be thought of as a process that modifies emotional patterns, changes cognitions, and alters behaviors.’
Here is a brief idea about how a session of psychodrama might look like. Let’s take a real life situation where we might have someone who we will call Sara. Sara is afraid to confront people when she feels she is being taken advantage of. She has a hard time saying no. People seem to walk all over her and she feels used. She feels like she doesn’t have the courage to stand up for