ABSTRACT
Sue Jennings, who is unanimously considered one of the founders of contemporary dramatherapy, has conceived an elegant descriptive model of dramatic children's play, the Embodiment, Projection, and Role (EPR) paradigm. This chapter examines these three phases, comparing them with the model of intersubjective matrix suggested by Braten and Trevarthen; it can be construed as a general blueprint along which children's intersubjective abilities are developed, from the earliest biologically-driven interactive dispositions, to a more ripened awareness of the other as a subject. Techniques involving the use of objects as supports to create stories and scenes are common in dramatherapy, especially with children. Handling the objects, children start to create narrative universes, growing more and more complex, both in the plots and in the psychological nuances of the characters, which often develop into fixed roles, with their own names and a hint of identity.
