ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates a descriptive model of the human being in a world of relationships, which can effectively support both theoretical and practical developments in dramatherapy, as it is based on the revision of the dramatic metaphor under the light of the new intersubjective paradigm, and of the recognition of creativity as a primary function. In drama, each person's knowledge faces the other's knowledge: we can experiment with different world-visions, as upon the stage we are not forced to make decisions for good but can allow ourselves to embrace for some time certain world-visions different to our own, and reflect on the comparison. Dramatherapy works on this principle: it provides people with a special and safe stage upon which their representations of themselves and of the world can play together, transformed by imagination and re-signified by metaphorical shifts; in it the person's nucleuses can find the space and the languages for encountering and renovating each other.
