Insight in psychodrama, in contrast to some classical psychoanalysis which relies upon verbal interpretations, occurs through action. Action-insight is the result of various kinds of embodied learning, cognition, or action catharsis.

Psychodramatists facilitate new insights through the person of the double, in role reversal, or with other action-techniques, thus emphasizing the gradual process of self-awareness evolving within the protagonist during the work.

It may be defined as the integration of emotional, cognitive, imaginary, behavioural and inter personal learning experiences.

Action-insight may appear as a sudden flash of comprehension-;'Oh; I see!-;or as the gradual unfolding of discoveries over a long period of time.The insight is not simply cognitive ,but an experiential and perceptual shift of awareness and understanding

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