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In the realm of law, where facts and arguments intertwine to shape the narrative of justice, there exists a lesser-known yet profoundly impactful technique: psychodrama. Far from the conventional courtroom theatrics often depicted in media, psychodrama serves as a therapeutic tool, enabling criminal defense lawyers to delve into the depths of the client’s emotions, experiences…
In Moreno’s psychodrama, “doubling” is a therapeutic technique that involves the use of a double, who is a participant or group member, to represent the inner thoughts, feelings, or conflicts of another participant, known as the protagonist. The double speaks the inner life of the protagonist, bringing the material that is lodged in the background…
Ann Hale’s sociometric cycle is a four-stage process that tracts the sociometric status and development of an individual. Each stage corresponds to a season (spring, summer, fall, and winter), and each season metaphorically represents the different phases of the sociometric analysis. The sociometric cycle is a map which may be used to assist a group…
Sociometry is a field within social science that delves into the study of social relationships and interpersonal interactions within groups. The founder of sociometry was Jacob L. Moreno (1889–1974). Sociometry more specifically deals with the nature, quality, and quantity of human connection. We are constantly making choices about what we feel, think and do. Sociometry…
A hot research topic in universities around the world involves the effect of psychedelic drugs have on the brain and mental health. These studies seeks to prove that psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD can effectively address various mental health issues, like depression, OCD, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The early research on these topics has been…
A common general theme in psychodrama is the exploration of a past childhood trauma. A psychodrama may conclude with a corrective reenactment of some aspect of the trauma but with a more satisfactory ending. To elucidate this, assume there is a time when a child was abandoned by his mother. A past scene of abandonment…
Introduction: In the business world, we have work groups and work teams. A work team has members who work interdependently on a specific, common goal to produce an end result for their business. A work group is two or more individuals who are interdependent in their accomplishments and may or may not work in the…
This simple question lends itself to a rather more complicated answer, which begins with a bit of history about Jacob L. Moreno, M.D., the founder of Psychodrama. Both of Moreno’s parents were Sephardi Jews, but by all accounts Moreno was not particularly religious. He was however deeply spiritual. Moreno believed that we are all connected…