ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the way psychodrama can be applied to a particular conceptual model of family systems theory, rather than to systemic therapy in the more general sense, as used in the Milan approach. The "multi-generation transmission process" as expounded by M. Bowen conceives family dysfunction as arising from the operation of a family's emotional system over several generations. Much family therapy involves working with family-of-origin issues and some practitioners consider these to be the most fundamental concerns. S. Lieberman in England and L. G. Roberto in the United States have reviewed transgenerational theories and therapies. These clinicians and many others have emphasized the importance of patients addressing these topics directly with the family members concerned wherever this is possible. The warm-up appeared to be an enactment that was a microcosm of three aspects of Lucy's life story: her personal history; her arrival at the day unit; and her own psychodrama.
