psychodrama

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ drama.

Noun

psychodrama (countable and uncountable, plural psychodramas)

1. A form of psychotherapy in which a patient acts a role in a context devised by a psychotherapist.
2. A drama in this form
3. (rare) A dramatic work focusing on the psychology of its characters
   • 1997, Irshad Manji, Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy, page 148:

     […] to be as often as possible present in the fifty-some psychodramas that fill the television screen each year.

Related terms

• psychodramatic
• psychodramatist

Translations

a form of psychotherapy

• Catalan: psicodrama m
• Spanish: psicodrama m
• Swedish: psykodrama n

See also

• encounter group