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[HV Psychodrama]

I don't have the citations you are looking for, but I can add something that 
I have found very helpful in working with guilt. Sometimes it helps to 
replay the scene with the protagonist in the mirror position, observing self 
as a child. Often they can then absolve the child of responsibility. "You 
were just a little girl, you didn't know any better, you were scared, etc." 
Then they can replay the scene with the knowledge they have now.
  One psychodrama was with a woman who, in the middle of post partum 
depression, shook her infant, now fourteen years old.She was wracked with 
guilt as this child had a hearing impairment as a result of the shaking.  In 
watching her self she expressed tremendous compassion for the young woman; 
she had been in a terrible situation with a hostile husband and no support. 
She then replayed the scene with one change...her current husband. And she 
saw how much an impact her situation had on her ability to function.
  Another time I directed a 14 year old who, at the age of seven, had been 
in a house fire and dropped the hand of the 3 year old cousin. The younger 
child perished. She showed what happened, playback style. We did a bunch of 
work with her talking to and taking the role of herself as seven. We then 
redid the scene with her in her own role, as the fourteen year old she is 
now, with all the skills she has now, and she was able to get the three year 
old out of the fire.
  In both cases the guilt was alleviated enough for them to become far more 
spontaneous is their lives.
Rebecca Walters
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>  I am looking for an article that spells out the
> sequence of scenes in a psychodrama for dealing with
> guilt.
> situation
> the Protagonist had an argument with her mother and
> yelled at her.  the mother yelled back and the next
> day while the P was at school the mother sufferered an
> brain aneuyrism  and died.
> the P was 12 when this happened and is now 27 and
> still feels guilt.
> The drama was as follows:
>  the P chose an auxilliary to be mother.
> role reversal-speaking as the M [with some interview
> questions from director]
> the P said she was in heaven looking down on her child
> and not happy that daughter felt guilt.
> continuing as M talked about a long standing medical
> condition with headaches,  many md visits some with
> child accompanying her. M continued to drink and drug
> and eat prohibited foods. Very insistant on daughter
> not feeling guilty.
> forgiving herself.
> RR P hears auxilliary as mother repeat  most of this.
>
>  P chooses auxil to be self at 12 yrs old. who comes
> up and joins them
> P watches and listens as M tells 12 year old same
> things.
> P is encouraged herself to tell 12 year old she does
> not need to feel guilty any more.
>  RR P with 12 year old self who repeats messages
> P hears as 12 year old from adult self and Mother
> RR return to adult self and release child from guilt.
> forgives self
> final hug all 3 and
> sharing.
>  This is the way I have always done this-especially
> with incest victims/survivors, believing that the P
> must experience the forgiveness as a child and not
> just as an adult that s/he needs to forgive
> herself/himself.
>  I know that TSM does a more involved and lengthly
> process for this, but since I work alone and rarely
> have more than 1 hour to work within-this is the
> framework I use. I have become extremely directive at
> times-telling A what to say by doubling statements .
>  There is probably something written on this and my
> students have asked for an article they can read on
> this.
>  I would appreciate any citations you all can come up
> with
> thanks
>
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