ABSTRACT
Roleplaying is a process of making inner gains, in insight and empathy, generalizations and motivations, self-confidence and peace of soul, and all of the usual subjective states of "mind", through peripheral, that is, actional processes. The argument for roleplaying is that for some people, and for some problems, it is a faster and more economical method of change. Successful roleplaying tends to elicit peak experiences. The individual is almost beyond himself in a really good psychotherapeutic session. If the therapist is experienced and well trained, he has some degree of judgment about when and how to use roleplaying, and will have skill in controlling it. The most important reason for using roleplaying as a psychotherapeutic technique is to initiate favorable "central changes"; that is, thinking and feeling changes so that improved behavior will result. The therapist and the assistants can manipulate the situation to create a peak type of experience in which considerable emotionalism will be displayed.
