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psychodrama

[ sahy-koh-drah-muh, -dram-uh, sahy-koh-drah-muh, -dram-uh ]

noun

  1. a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.


psychodrama

/ ˌsaɪkəʊdrəˈmætɪk; ˈsaɪkəʊˌdrɑːmə /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • psychodramatic, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ···· [sahy-koh-dr, uh, -, mat, -ik], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of psychodrama1

First recorded in 1935–40; psycho- + drama
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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.

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It makes sense that the psychodrama of losers in their 20s that was aimed at cute girls has now, as these men age, shifted its target.

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Unfortunately, his petty psychodrama will have real impacts on the whole human race, which may be denied the often life-saving benefits of what real researchers do.

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Musk can't fire people, and there is no need to give up just because he's taking out his psychodrama on strangers.

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In channeling John Frankenheimer’s 1966 psychodrama “Seconds” by way of “Beauty and the Beast,” Schimberg has delectably weirder, self-destructive plans for his made-over protagonist — a doom loop of personality disintegration as the past catches up with him.

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