Guilt removal sessions

[BARNETT WEISS]

Dear Elaine:
Wonderful to hear this from you. The one thing that I add to what you do is nice kinesthetic piece from the NLP phobia collapse. The P at the end if she hasn't already done so brings the 12 year old to her, hugs her slowly and focuses on seeing that the 12 year old looks well comforted and deguilted as she imagines bringing that comforted 12 year old into her heart of hearts and thanks her for her contribution to her life. When that is complete, she in some ritual way thanks her psychodramatically evolved mother for this release and then hugs her as well. This totally changes the internal visual, auditory, and kinesthetic representations for the P and that means the experience is forever changed allowing for new and more productive life responses. 

The people who are best at doing their versions of the family Constellations get into this quite beautifully with a few more nice additives including what they call Healing Sentences which you and many of us have derived on our own over the years seeing and hearing what words heal best. 

One of the things that the Constellation folks seem to be missing, which Bonnie Weiss pointed out to me in our discussion with which I totally agree,  is the powerful sociometrically managed aspect of community building and the subsequent redistribution of sociometric dynamics which takes place during a well run sharing process. I have often claimed and taught that the real work in psychodrama comes after the action portion and during the sharing. That is the power of doing this work in a group. Otherwise, why not just use chairs in individual sessions similar to Gestalt work.   
In the constellation work, they seem to have been taught to disuade any discussion of the action by the P at the time and to let it sort of perculate in the protagonist for a few days before they have any further input from anyone about it. I think this is because they have not been trained well enough in how to conduct a proper sharing session and do not adequately recognize the importance of the action as a source of community building which is certainly a part of the indigenous spiritual roots of theater where ultimately all of this work comes from.  Of course protecting the protagonist during the sharing session from any analysis by others is essential and more importantly, the sharing persons need to be protected from their distancing processes which keep them stuck as well. 
Blessings, Bud

elaine sachnoff <esachnoff at sbcglobal.net> wrote:   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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