Psychodrama

Abstract

The author has worked at the Ley Clinic, the Oxfordshire Regional Alcoholism Unit, for the past 3 years, and has had training in psychodrama and experience with group analytic work at the Institute of Group Analysis. In this article, she discusses how psychodrama can promote personal change in patients experiencing alcohol dependence and its consequent social and psychological disturbances. She believes that the potential of personal creativity lies within all people, is a basic ingredient of the rehabilitative process, and belongs to every aspect of occupational therapy. She harnesses the creative process through psychodrama.