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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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Other 51Թ Forms

  • psychodramatic adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of psychodrama1

First recorded in 1935–40; psycho- + drama
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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.

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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.

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It would make a great double-feature with Burt Lancaster’s 1968 “The Swimmer,” another hallucinatory psychodrama about a braggart skidding downhill.

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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.

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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.

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