It’s time now to break out of the medical model! Although Moreno confined himself to the psychotherapeutic applications of simulations that he called "psychodrama"\u2014and it could well be argued that it was appropriate he did so at that time—now it is even more appropriate for the method to gain some distance from the medical model. That is, the word \u201cpsychodrama\u201d describes a process that should not be limited to a context of anything being \u201cwrong\u201d with the clients or groups that use this method.<\/p>\n
Action explorations assumes that problems crop up not because the people involved are not doing it \u201cright"\u2019; there\u2019s nothing \u201cwrong\u201d with the people involved, but only that the situation might be helped by a more creative response! A new term is needed for psychodrama to transcend the confines of the medico-psycho-logical model: I suggest \u201cAction Explorations.\u201d Psycho-dramatic methods are applied beyond either implying that there\u2019s anything whatsoever \u201cwrong\u201d with the minds of the individuals involved. <\/p>\n
Also mistaken is the idea that what is being sought must be a "dramatic" process. Rather, what is being sought is in other contexts called \u201csimulations,\u201d trying out complex maneuvers, finding out by doing so where errors or insufficiencies crop up.<\/p>\n
Action explorations is a relatively small-group approach that integrates the feelings and thoughts of the people involved.. For example, it transcends \u201creal life\u201d in that it brings to the surface through the technique called \u201cdoubling\u201d some effort at extern-alizing the thoughts or assumptions that underlie various types of problems.<\/p>\n
So let the word, \u201cpsychodrama\u201d be descriptive of Moreno’s method for treatment of psycho-logical disturbances, and let a new term, "Action Explorations" be de-scriptive of improvised and tentative \u201cplay\u201d depictions of situations\u2014 i.e., simu-lations. These are quite apart from the applications for treatment for treatment of psychiatric conditions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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