Are psychodrama and psychoanalysis compatible theories? Does individual psychodrama exist? James M. Sacks, Foreword. Introduction: Trying to Cross the Language Barrier. Part 1: New Approaches to Psychodrama Theory. Scheme of Human Development (Inspired by Moreno and Buber): An Approach to Sanity and Insanity. Freud, Moreno and Bossa Nova: Elements of Relationship Psychology. The Psychology of Becoming Ill. Personality Diagnosis and Identity Disorders. Part 2: New Approaches to Psychodrama Technique. Individual Psychotherapy and Psychodrama: Relationship Psychotherapy. Internal Psychodrama: Working with Internal Images. The Patient, the Illness and the Body: A View through Internal Psychodrama. Theater-Psychodrama. Public Psychodrama: Open Sessions. Reflecting the Experience Part 3: Psychodrama and Sexuality. Sexuality as a Relational Instrument. Sexual Identity. Sexual Sociometry and Forms of Sexuality Chapter. Sexuality and Personal Evolution. Part 4: Past and Future of Psychodrama. Moreno and IAGP: The Beginnings of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy. Tendencies in Psychotherapy and the Role of Psychodrama. Psychodrama attempts to answer these questions by weaving the two schools of thought together with illustrative clinical examples, while preserving the essence of psychodramatic philosophy and methodology. Previously unavailable in the English language, this book presents Jose Fonseca's diverse new approach to psychodrama together with a blending of theories.

The book is divided into clear sections covering new approaches to psychodrama theory and psychodrama technique, psychodrama and sexuality and the past and future of psychodrama. Fonseca's innovative ideas include the adaptation of techniques originally intended for groups to individual psychodramatic psychotherapy. He distinguishes between not only the normal and the mentally ill but the normal and the optimal, and presents a detailed developmental psychology, inspired by Moreno and Buber, but clearly influenced by object relations theory. Contents