ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a novel form of psychotherapeutic practice called ‘schizodrama’. Developed in the 1970s by analyst and activist Gregorio Baremblitt, schizodrama involves participants and therapists creating dramatic performances as a way of addressing a wide range of mental health conditions. Its development has also been strongly influenced by a number of diverse theatre traditions. Schizodrama offers a radical alternative to predominant ways of understanding and addressing mental ill health and its psychosocial and political impacts. Above all, it engages participants in dramatic or drama-like activities so as to produce ways of being and becoming other than the hegemonic ways of thinking, feeling, acting and accumulating.
