Publications
Role Play and its Applications
Published on July 2021 in Forum, the peer-reviewed journal of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP)
Abstract
Scholars in various disciplines have studied applications of role playing into their chosen fields in psychology and social sciences. Their explorations of role play have spanned over a century. Yet, most colleges, universities, and mental health training institutions devote little effort to teaching role play in a systematic fashion, ignoring this set of skills, its deep roots and vast potential to enhance the work of professionals in psychotherapy, counseling, coaching,and education. This article sets out to survey some of the prominent social scientists whose writings described and helped shape role playing as an important cluster of techniques that may be applied to a wide variety of theoretical schools of thought. After reviewing different theories on role playing, this article describes the process and techniques as we have implemented at the Sociometric Institute in New York.
Other Publications
- Psychodrama in the 21st CenturyPublished in November, 2003, by Springer Publishing Company in New York City
- Highlighting Sociometry in the Psychodramatic Process: A glance at psychodrama in New York CityPublished in the German Journal Zeitschrift fur Psychodrama und Soziometrie, Volume 15, on pages 353-357, dated October, 2016
- A Documentary: LoveTrueFilmmaker and director Alma Har’el has elicited the help of psychodramatists as consultants in her documentaries, and has recently completed another one in which I worked with her and the protagonists.
- Bringing Psychodrama to the Main Stage of Group PsychotherapyPublished in Group ( the Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society), Volume 33.4, December 2009
- Evolution and Transformation of Open Sessions in Psychodrama: A SurveyPublished in the British journal of psychodrama and sociodrama, volume 23 number 2, pp.15-31. in 2008.
- 20th edition of The Encyclopedia of Social WorkAn article about psychodrama written by Jacob Gershoni, L.C.S.W., C.G.P, T.E.P and published in the 20th edition of The Encyclopedia of Social Work, edited by Terry Mizrahi & Larry Davis. Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008.