Definition of "psychodrama" [psychodrama]

• A psychotherapeutic technique in which people are assigned roles to be played spontaneously within a dramatic context devised by a therapist in order to understand the behavior of people with whom they have difficult interactions. (noun)
• A dramatization in which this technique is employed. (noun)
• An event, social interaction, or narrative that manifests psychological forces or problems: "In [Pierre, Melville] abruptly reinvents himself as a domestic novelist, proposing to write a psychodrama of family intimacy” ( Richard H. Brodhead). (noun)

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• "But to walk away from psychodrama is to abandon hope."
• "The thing about psychodrama is this: If you have a lot of conflict in your life, usually you want it there."
• "Sometimes, letting go of psychodrama is letting go of your need to be right."