How might psychodrama blend with stammering therapy?
Psychodrama is a highly creative, powerful and extremely versatile method that can be successfully applied within our profession. Many fields could benefit from it, including stammering and voice therapy, and work with those suffering a terminal illness. Psychodramatic methods can also be used to provide invaluable learning experiences for professionals and trainees. The application of psychodrama to stammering therapy, under the direction of a trained psychodramatist, would be invaluable. Unfortunately, there is only space here to give you some general ideas and tasters that will hopefully whet your appetite. Let us consider a few ways in which just one of the specific techniques could be useful in working with people who stammer. Role Reversal This is a most central and deeply therapeutic tool in psychodrama. It requires the protagonist to exchange places with the auxiliary who holds a key role, (e.g. mum, protagonist’s internal critical self), or a significant object (e.g. kitchen t
