ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the complex means whereby group members can together create the aesthetic whole that is a psychodrama. Psychodrama is generally accepted as being one of the humanistic psychotherapies, but it has links with many other schools of therapy. The chapter suggests that a number of false impressions or myths exist about psychodrama. Psychodrama is a dramatic form of psychotherapy and uses terms derived from the theatre. The techniques of psychodrama are a powerful way of helping people access concerns or experiences that in everyday life they might try to avoid thinking about or, indeed, that they might have forgotten. Psychoanalytic theory attributes such unconscious and semi-conscious communications between people as occurring through the process of transference and countertransference. Some psychoanalysts have also considered the ways in which the inner world of the patient may be dramatically externalized during the therapeutic process in the consulting-room.
