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An indispensable guide for all clinicians interested in experiential therapy, this book is a primer on psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy with step-by-step exercises.

Destined to become a classic for any experiential therapy library, this is a basic primer on psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. With a foreword by Zerka Moreno, wife of the late J.L. Moreno, the father of experiential therapy, the book gives clinicians the tools to understand the theory and practice of experiential therapy. Filled with client stories, Moreno's theories in his own words, plus step-by-step exercises they can use in their own practice, the book makes experiential work manageable for the clinician. It also includes specific exercises that integrate trauma, grief and addiction theory and a brand new model for understanding trauma and addictive relationships.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Foreword(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. xv)
• Part I The Essence of Psychodrama(p. 1)
• 1 The Living Stage(p. 3)
• 2 The Triadic System: Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy(p. 11)
• 3 The Techniques of the Classical Psychodramatic Enactment(p. 21)
• 4 The Theoretical Underpinnings of Psychodrama(p. 47)
• 5 Spontaneity and Creativity Versus the Cultural Conserve(p. 61)
• 6 Sociometry(p. 73)
• 7 The Social Atom(p. 83)
• 8 The Sociometric Test, Spectrograms, Locograms and Milling(p. 99)
• 9 Group Psychotherapy(p. 121)
• 10 Sociodrama(p. 139)
• 11 Role Theory(p. 149)
• 12 Psychodramatic Journaling and Near-Psychodramatic Techniques: Letter Writing, Journaling, Working with Photographs and Guided Imagery(p. 179)
• Part II Special Issues(p. 215)
• 13 Scared Stiff: Trauma and The Suspended Self(p. 217)
• 14 Getting the Self Back: Grief, Mourning and Moving Through Loss(p. 265)
• 15 A World Without Windows: Depression(p. 289)
• 16 The Wound That Never Heals: Unresolved Anger(p. 307)
• 17 Thriving in Spite of the Odds: Psychodrama and Resilience(p. 321)
• 18 A Leap of Faith: Amends, Forgiveness and Letting Go(p. 337)
• Part III Special Populations: Adapting Sociometry and Psychodrama for Focused Use in Addiction and Co-occuring Issues(p. 349)
• 19 A House Divided Against Itself: Working with Addicts, ACOAs and Codependents(p. 351)
• 20 A Holistic Approach to Treatment: Treating the Whole Person/Treating the Whole Family(p. 361)
• 21 The Addicted, Traumatized Family System Model(p. 367)
• 22 Specific Exercises for Working with Addiction(p. 381)
• 23 Breaking the Chain of Family Dysfunction: Working with Couples(p. 407)
• Part IV The Experiential Model(p. 423)
• 24 The Experiential Model: What It Is, How to Use It(p. 425)
• 25 Staying Alive While Living: The Survival of the Creator(p. 445)
• Glossary of Terms(p. 451)
• Appendix The Magic Shop, Holidays, Working with Masks, Directing Exercises, the Living Genogram and More(p. 457)
• Bibliography(p. 480)
• Index(p. 494)

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Part I:The Essence of Psychodrama The Living Stage The Therapeutic Theater The 'theatre for spontaneity' was the unchaining of illusion. But this illusion, acted out by the people who have lived through it in reality, is the unchaining of life. . . .This mad passion, this unfolding of life in the domain of illusion, does not work like a renewal of suffering, rather it confirms the rule: every true second time is the liberation from the first. One gains towards his own life, towards all one has done and does, the point of view of the creator the experience of the true freedom, the freedom from his own nature. . . . Every living figure denies and resolves itself through psychodrama. . . . One speaks, eats, drinks, procreates, sleeps, is awake, writes, fights, quarrels, earns, loses, even dies a second time in psychodramatic ways. But the same pain does not affect the player and spectator as pain, the same want does not affect him as want, the same thought does not affect him as thought. It is painless, consciousless, thoughtless, deathless. . . . It is the self-produced and self-created recurrence of itself. J. L. MorenoPsychodrama, Volume 1 Psychodrama uses action and role play as a means to study behavior in its concrete form. The therapeutic stage allows for the natural condensations and expansions of time that exist in both the conscious and unconscious mind to emerge into the therapeutic moment. On the living stage our worlds can be produced in a manner that more closely imitates the way in which they are stored in our surplus reality. Psychodrama accesses that part of us that, though invisible, provides the script from which we live our psychological and emotional world, with all of its uniquely personal meaning, logic and significance. The world that drives and defines us. In psychodrama we 'unchain the illusion.' The usual instruction in psychodrama is 'show me, don't tell me.' Psychodrama as a method of action uses the body in situ to warm up to the contents of the mind and heart. It differs from talking methods not so much in its theoretical approach but in its use of action or role play, in addition to words, to tell a story. Indeed, many therapeutic approaches psychoanalysis, object relations, trauma and grief theory, self psychology, and some cognitive/behavioral approaches, to name a few fit tongue-and-groove as a theoretical base for the flexible, action method of psychodrama. Psychodrama's genius is its recognition that in order to find the right words we have to find the right feeling, and in order to find the right feeling we may need to gently reenter in body as well as mind, the time and space in which that feeling was germinated.Psychodrama might also be seen as 'the royal road' to right-brain functioning. The right brain plays a central role in organizing the psychobiological processes that underlie a number of vital functions that occur beneath levels of awareness. The control of vital functions t Excerpted from The Living Stage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy by Tian Dayton, Tian Dayton, All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.