ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways in which Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater aims to allow a creative process that bypasses the conscious experience and invites the deepening and expanding of the inner world through the use of metaphors, archetypes and dream-thought. This process is discussed in terms of drama therapy’s dramatic reality, distancing and expansion, Winnicott’s descriptions of the transitional space between fantasy and reality, and Moreno’s term of surplus reality. Several techniques are illustrated with an emphasis on the importance of improvisation, facilitation of theatrical free associations, spontaneity and creativity.
