Word: psychodramas
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...Elizabeths (7,500 patients) included eight Episcopalians (the course is required by the denomination's nearby Virginia Theological Seminary), four Methodists, one Presbyterian and one Seventh-Day Adventist. For twelve weeks they were exposed to a full program: lectures by the hospital staff, diagnostic conferences of doctors, psychodrama sessions, at which patients are encouraged to act out their problems and aggressions (TIME, May 30). Each averaged ten hours a week with the patients themselves, chatting, playing games or discussing spiritual problems...
...therapeutic technique of psychodrama (TIME, Jan. 24), patients act out their own experiences or roles related to them; in presenting Herman Wouk's Court Martial, the patients did the opposite: they had to adapt themselves, like any actors, to prefabricated roles. Remarkable was the fact that they chose the play themselves, without prompting from the hospital's recreation staff, and assigned most of the parts...
Emotionally Charged Lights. Georgia-born Psychologist Enneis, 34, studied psychodrama under its originator, Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, at Beacon, N.Y., was early impressed by the effect of lights on the actors. Where a director uses lights in a conventional theater to harmonize with the mood of the scene, Enneis found that he could control or even create emotions with different colored lights. His most vivid example: a staff assistant was acting under the emotionally charged red lights when a woman patient (going through a transference relationship) attacked her. Onstage, Enneis tried vainly to separate them, but an alert observer flicked...
Participants in a psychodrama group stand around the stage before each session, chatting with Enneis and among themselves to decide who shall be the first "star" and what aspects of life to portray. After the-y have attended a couple of sessions, they are usually surprisingly willing to go onstage and act out husband-and-wife fights or mother-and-daughter quarrels. Among recent patients was Joe, 24, who had felt unwanted and frustrated at home with an ineffective father and a hostile, aggressive, dominant mother. With another patient acting the part of his mother, Joe learned to express some...
Susan was the star of a "psychodrama," a psychiatric technique in which mental patients are encouraged to act out their dreams and fantasies. The plot is made up by the participants, with the help of an attending psychologist. In Susan's "play," after a brief blackout, she reappeared with her "father" under grey lights representing purgatory. The audience served as the jury, and another patient acted Susan's aunt and shrilled accusations at her. Soon Susan and her ghostly father went to hell where, under flickering red lights, the damned stood around mute, each in a shell...