The author describes the method of existential psychodrama, which, unlike classical psychodrama, focuses not on the patient’s past, but on the project of his future.
Can you see the future? Need, need, save! The author reproaches classical psychodrama (or even psychotherapy in general) for being preoccupied with the patient’s frozen past (trauma). In contrast, existential psychodrama is designed to awaken hope, to create a blueprint for the future in which one can live with pleasure. “I can give those who want it my own appetite for life,” promises clinical psychologist Claude Laurent. Over 35 years of his practice, he has created his own approach and psychotherapeutic tools, which allows him to successfully work with different patients: gloomy, overexcited, deceitful or indifferent. He describes not only clinical cases, but gives a deep theory, drawing on the data of mathematics and linguistics. “The text sometimes seems like a ciphered message,” writes the expert of our magazine, psychotherapist Ekaterina Mikhailova, in the preface to the book. “The main idea of the author is an appeal to the life (action, future) of not only patients, but also the professional thinking of colleagues and readers, whom for this he puzzles, provokes, leads into the jungle, not caring in the least about how they will get out of them.”
Class, 208 p.