Word: psychodrama
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...across in his career. He's a loquacious narrator, and genuinely interested in his subject in the same way as say, the narrator in Lord Jim. The difference being that Dysart acts out his narrative--just as he has Alan Strang act out his psychosis through a form of psychodrama. And, instead of repeatedly saying "he's one of us" as the narrator says of the rejected Lord Jim, Dysart keeps asking himself, "why should I make this boy one of us, why not leave him in his own world?" For Dysart is the victim of a low sperm count...
...former Roman Catholic priest who is now a consulting psychologist at the University of California in San Diego. During the three-hour weekly class, the teachers stress the fears and ambivalences of the dying, discuss problems of suicide and euthanasia, and use the techniques of role-playing and psychodrama to illustrate possible relationships between a dying customer and a paid stranger trying to be a friend...
...Deborah) and his wife (Sara). It almost goes without saying that both are possessive and determined to win his favor, and that he is torn between them. The idea isn't terribly original, but, in the hands of a playwright of O'Neill's talent, the potential for good psychodrama is there. Unfortunately O'Neill never had a chance to finishMansions, and in the third (and final) draft he still seems to be struggling to put on paper the characters he envisioned. The play is full of redundant, unfocused monologues that add nothing to our understanding of his characters...
Died. Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, 83, controversial psychiatrist who developed the psychodrama therapeutic technique in the 1920s; after a long illness; in Beacon, N.Y. Trained in Vienna, Moreno came to believe that "orthodox psychoanalysis only makes a patient feel more self-conscious and lonely." He devised a kind of group-therapy theater in which participants assume roles onstage, spontaneously acting out their hang-ups and interacting with individuals on both sides of the footlights...
Three people seduce, wound and demolish one another, all in the name of love. Their poor posturings and deceits, their volatile cartridges of passion, inflict unhealing wounds. The Mother and the Whore is a harrowing psychodrama of destruction...