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| In a psychodramatic production, participants are encouraged to display (concretize)
their inner and outer experience through dramatization, role-playing and dramatic
self-presentation. Enactment enables experience to be shared without passing through a
symbolic word translation alone. Many believe the special advantage of psychodramatic
acting out is the multi fold utilization of both non-verbal and verbal communication
(Polansky & Harkins, 1969). Enactment also involves the process of 'surplus reality'
whereby the protagonist is able to explore the 'as if' experience of a wished for
relationship or situation. It should be noted that acting out as a valuable ingredient in psychodrama is restricted to acting within the therapeutic setting. Moreno clearly differentiated 'irrational, incalculable acting out in life itself, harmful to the patient and others' from 'therapeutic, controlled acting out taking place within the treatment setting' |
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