ABSTRACT
Lydia Mak was one of the first cohort of psychodrama psychotherapists to complete a training in Hong Kong. Her focus here is on her work with a client suffering from the impact of unprocessed bereavement. She introduces us to some of the cultural factors that impact the client Sue’s ability to acknowledge and work through her emotional response to two key family bereavements. She shares the challenges of using the psychodramatic method to assist in this process and demonstrates how she uses the method relationally to acknowledge and work with the client’s defences. Key to this process is the use of role analysis, the technique of the double, and methods that allow a degree of aesthetic distance.
