Psychodrama
noun
1.
a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
noun
1.
(psychiatry) a form of group therapy in which individuals act out, before an audience, situations from their past
2.
a film, television drama, etc, in which the psychological development of the characters is emphasized
psychodrama psy·cho·dra·ma (sī’kə-drä’mə, -drām’ə)
n.
A psychotherapeutic and analytic technique in which people are assigned roles to be played spontaneously within a dramatic context devised by a therapist.
A dramatization in which this technique is employed.
psy’cho·dra·mat’ic (-drə-māt’ĭk) adj.
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