[Fwd: Theatre of Life: Psychodrama on the Acute Inpatient Unit]

[Jacob Gershoni]

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Subject: 	Theatre of Life: Psychodrama on the Acute Inpatient Unit
Date: 	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:35:39 +1000
From: 	Sue Daniel <suedan at netspace.net.au>
To: 	grouptalk <List at grouptalkweb.org>



Dear Adam

Lorraine Michael, Psychodramatist, conducts the Theatre of Life: 
Psychodrama on the Acute Inpatient Unit at a major hospital here in 
Melbourne, Australia.  From August 2003 until present time this ongoing 
weekly group (entitled "The Stage is Mine") has been a feature of the 
program at the hospital.  Lorraine and the staff, including 
psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, 
psychologists, students on placement, pastoral care workers and the 
nurse unit manager have established a collaborative relationship, and 
patients are referred to the group regularly.  The group composition 
includes both patients in an acute stage as well as a recovery stage, 
and staff.  Sessions are debriefed and evaluated by Lorraine (any 
co-leader) and staff after the group disperses, using pre-established 
criteria; aspects of the work on the unit are also brought forward in 
the formal training program and in supervision with a psychodramatist 
trainer and supervisor from the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne.  
Lorraine has written two papers on her work and maybe at least one of 
these may be published in the near future. 

Lorraine says, "The group is held for an hour and provides an 
opportunity for participants to enact scenarios from their own lives and 
thus experience various aspects of their issues as well as a range of 
emotions, spontaneously and creatively, in larger-than-life dimensions.  
This is done through the use of psychodramatic production techniques 
such as mirroring, self-presentation, role-playing and role reversal 
where under the direction of the therapist (director), the 'protagonist' 
may choose to use props (cushions, scarves, chairs and puppets), and 
auxiliary egos (group members) to concretise and serve the 'warm-up' and 
flow of expression.  In the process and in an added sharing phase, 
participants gain an (increased) awareness of themselves and others, and 
in that, their relationships with themselves and others, as well as an 
awareness of the roles they assume in life."

With best wishes,
Sue Daniel






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