the role of the psychodrama – liberation

Analytical psychodrama is only known to specialists; As for adolescence, is this period of crisis, basically, so well known? Nothing is less certain in view of the complex cases submitted by Alexandre Morel, expert in psychodrama. Invented by a contemporary of Freud, Jacob Moreno, the psychodrama is a technique of care through the dramatic game. However, from the 1950s, psychoanalysts gave the scenes of psychodrama the status of a dream scene. The different symbolization methods thus make it possible to short-circuit the resistance of the subject that we meet in classic psychoanalytic therapy, especially in adolescents.

It is a kind of I to which We are witnessing in the book. The first case is that of Cléo, 17, hospitalized for very severe anorexia which endangers his life. She says no to everything, has nothing to say (the « no » has a very important place in the adolescence clinic). The whole art of the playmaker is « Make a story of this nothing ». One of the co -herapists (there are three) will be the character of Nothing who chooses to come next to her; Another plays it Psychodrama Who stands in front of her (the playmaker stays away, he distributes the roles). Over the sessions, one of the cotherapists will even play the gastric probe that the patient is still wearing around her neck. She says to Cléo: « I'm here, don't worry, you can count on me ». Over the no