Role playing and training for individual psychotherapy: some disadvantages to avoid
De NEuter, P.
Acta Psychiatrica Belgica 75(6): 920-926
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8967 PMID: 1232786 Document Number: 90315
The author first describes briefly the outcome of a session. He then indicates some positive aspects of this method : better understanding of the patient's attitudes ; desinhibition of the spontaneity of the psychotherapist and better self-understanding, increase in facility in gesture and nursing ; questioning of psychotheapeutic ideals not yet integrated. The second part of the communication is devoted to inconveniences to avoid : alienation in new group psychotherapeutic goals, increase to tendencies to "voyeurisme" and absence of analysis of transferential processes. The advantages of the method outrange the eventuel inconveniences, especially when it is possible resove them.