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psychodrama Audio
psy·cho·dra·ma [ sahy-koh-drah-muh ]
Subclass of:
Mind-Body Therapies; Group Psychotherapy
Definitions related to psychodrama:
  • Primarily a technique of group psychotherapy which involves a structured, directed, and dramatized acting out of the patient's personal and emotional problems.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Technique of group psychotherapy which involves a structured, directed, and dramatized acting out of the patients personal and emotional problems.
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    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Psychodrama, group psychotherapeutic technique in which patients more or less spontaneously dramatize their personal problems before an audience of fellow patients and therapists, some of whom may also participate in the dramatic production. A stage setting is generally used, and the chief...
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