It occurred to me that another function of psychodrama is social validation.. We are social beings who are unconsciously asking, \u201cDo you see me? I exist. Does anyone care? Does anyone find me interesting? Am I in any way a part of the whole?\u201d A colleague in Italy wrote that in a sense, the field of theatre is the \u201cmother\u201d of psychodrama. It responds to those who have the courage, responding to the need, to share\u2014and show\u2014the inner world: How it is, and how they want to transform it. <\/p>\n
What if Freud underestimated the psychic needs, and Jung, who expanded these many-fold, similar underestimated the social, the need to show and share. What if social connectedness is a fairly basic human need? To dance in a circle together! I dare to suppose that that need became not only over-ridden as culture became more industrial and atomized, but then overlooked and neglected!<\/p>\n
Alfred Adler was the most extraverted of the early depth psychologists, and he talked about \u201cGemeinschaefts-gefuehl\u201d\u2014lamely translated as \u201csocial interest.\u201d Make it more a need, a need to feel part of what is intuited to be the group. It explains good stuff and horrible stuff\u2014behaviors that had gone unexplained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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