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psychodrama
[sahy-koh-drah-muh, -dram-uh, sahy-koh-drah-muh, -dram-uh]
noun
a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
psychodrama
/ ˌsaɪkəʊdrəˈmætɪk, ˈsaɪkəʊˌdrɑːmə /
noun
psychiatry a form of group therapy in which individuals act out, before an audience, situations from their past
a film, television drama, etc, in which the psychological development of the characters is emphasized
Other 51Թ Forms
- psychodramatic adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of psychodrama1
Example Sentences
Her latest movie, “Die, My Love,” a marital psychodrama starring an impressively unhinged Jennifer Lawrence, has just hours earlier been acquired by Mubi, the upstart distributor that released last year’s “The Substance,” in a deal reported at $24 million.
It’s one thing to croon about the aftertaste of youthful excess to a dirty, mesmerizing dance beat, however, and another to draw the subject out to a compelling feature length, which the turgid psychodrama “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” starring Tesfaye and directed by Trey Edward Shults, mostly fails to do.
It would make a great double-feature with Burt Lancaster’s 1968 “The Swimmer,” another hallucinatory psychodrama about a braggart skidding downhill.
Whereas Chris has too little emotion, Braxton has far too much — he’s touchy, insecure and prone to temper tantrums, so caught up in his own psychodrama that he loiters around his murder sprees gossiping about his brother to a dazed hostage.
Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.
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