ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with learning in the passive mode—that is, by looking and listening. While listening to the therapist, while carefully attending to his explanations and interpretations, the patient is learning passively. Psychotherapy is a learning process and one learns by the passive mode of looking and listening as well as by the active mode of actually doing. In group therapy, various individuals may, either on the basis of volunteering or as in the illustration, in terms of all showing how they would operate, indicate their method of dealing with a particular situation. In roleplaying, when a member of a group acts out his problem, the situation is highly likely to be valuable and beneficial to the other members since they are likely to have similar problems. In roleplaying for instruction the members who are acting serve as living audio-visual devices.
