Advanced Directing Techniques

This chapter covers multiple advanced psychodrama directing interventions to further enhance the effectiveness and engagement of the group experience. Techniques will include involving the entire group in the process, integrating multiple topics into one psychodrama, and making clinical role assignments based on prior knowledge of group members or projective identification. Methods for directing the auxiliaries and audience members will be discussed, as well as using sociometry and psychosociodrama within a psychodrama scene. Opportunities for moments of multiple protagonists will be highlighted, as well as utilizing anything and everything that happens in the group room as symbolically part of the surplus reality of the psychodrama scene.