ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a description of the basic techniques of psychodrama and monodrama used in the treatment of body image. Chapter also presents the psychological justification for and description of the psychodrama in the individual and group therapies, in which the protagonists are patients with eating disorders. The patients usually focus on the topics of hatred of the body and conflicts around eating. Psychodrama techniques can significantly accelerate the process of working through and/or bypassing resistance when identifying emotional and cognitive body image distortions. When the patient in psychological therapy chose the psychodrama role regarding body image or eating disorder symptoms, they have a chance to quickly overcome the phenomenon of universal resistance. This supports the patient’s positive motivation to work on the internal causes behind body image distortions and eating disorder symptoms. Properly selected psychodrama techniques enable a quick regression in the patients, in which they can fulfill the needs that were frustrated during childhood. With the help of the auxiliary ego and role changes, the protagonist/patient can be provided with corrective emotional experiences concerning previously unmet needs.
