ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with techniques which serve special purposes, such as enactment, group psychotherapy, and the clinical training of psychotherapists. It considers informal role-playing techniques which can be used in the interview room with client and therapist enacting the parts. The parts can be structured with the two of them agreeing in advance as to how the parts are to be played out. In the writer’s opinion the development of enactment techniques holds great promise in psychotherapy. Sometimes psychotherapeutic techniques are more easily perceived when one is a bystander to psychotherapy, sometimes more easily when one is a participant. The function of support and the effectiveness of its various techniques can often be appreciated only when one is oneself in a precarious spot and badly in need of it. Most clinicians seem to be of the opinion that therapeutic practice should not be undertaken until after one has mastered the theory and techniques of diagnosis.
