Trauma-Focused Psychodrama: Experiential Therapy for Complex PTSD

This book presents trauma-focused psychodrama as an effective treatment for trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and complex PTSD. Chapters focus on common themes and psychodrama enactments related to trauma, including strengths-based scenes, working with defenses, parts of self, traumatic loss, inner child work, perpetrator work, embodying posttraumatic growth, and vicarious trauma. Psychodrama’s interventions, history, theory, and research for the treatment of trauma and trauma-related conditions in group therapy settings are outlined. Trauma-informed principles, risks of retraumatization, sociometry, and psychodrama-like interventions will be covered. Each chapter contains various examples and depictions of interventions and experiences from the author’s practice in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Trauma-Focused Psychodrama provides psychodramatists and other group practitioners with essential teaching related to trauma-informed practice and trauma-focused psychodrama. Psychotherapists and psychodrama trainees will find this book useful to guide and support their learning and clinical practice.