ABSTRACT
Theoreticians of children's psychodrama have defined the role of the psychodramatists in quite different ways. For a first approximation, we might say that the role of the psychodramatist is to heal the children. From a situational point of view, psychodramatists can intervene in the group on three different planes of action: Intervention in the alpha position, in other words, in the position of the leader or model. Didier Anzieu, thinks that the psychodramatist may choose to play the part of a kind of double for the child, with the idea of modulating and attenuating his emotions and representing the missing ego function, thereby assuring the continuity of the self. In French practice, two psychodramatists, ideally of different genders, conduct the work. If the group is directed by a single psychologist, it develops in a very different way, especially in the intensity of the dyadic relationship between the group and the dramatist.
