ABSTRACT
This chapter describes drama-based view of psychoanalysis and discusses its background in terms of internal and external communication, quoting Japanese materials. It presents a psychoanalytic theory and practice from the drama-based viewpoint of a culture in which people may feel deeply ashamed of their private self. Psychoanalytic psychology was created by distinguished physicians who treated hysterics who appeared to be playing a pathological role. The fact that a drama-based viewpoint is very useful in analytic practice in the context of the "culture of shame" may be because the Japanese have a keen awareness of intense shame. In the analytic psychopathology of shame, as Okano states, an awareness of shame is easy to understand if we see the self in terms of the duality of an "ideal self" and a "shameful self." The chapter concludes by Japanese example of clinical dialogues, as analysed from a drama-based viewpoint, in order to show the importance of resistance analysis in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
