Explanation of Psychodrama in Barone Defense Firm

Answer: The word itself is scary. Whenever I tell people about psychodrama, they immediately start thinking about some crazy thing that happened in their life and this person that was psycho. So the word itself is unfortunate. But if we unpack the word and think about it: psycho is the study of the mind and of behavior; and drama, of course, is to reenact something. So, in psychodrama you are reenacting something from the person's life or from their mind. It's really an improvisational theater of the person's life. And psychodrama itself is used most typically for a therapeutic purpose. There is something similar to that called sociodrama, which is where the director—the person who is trained in this type of methodology—is using the tools of psychodrama to gain more insight into a group issue.