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The article will discuss the basic principles of supervision and thus of processing in humanistic psychodrama. On one hand supervision represents the necessary professional and personal safety (for the psychodramatist as well as the protagonist), on the other hand it offers assurance for an ever evolving therapy. Supervision in humanistic psychodrama centres on processing, it is therefore important that the supervisor masters the following challenges: one’s role of facilitator (way of being), processing’s focalisations (relations – method – clinic) and functions (for the trainee, the group, the supervisor-trainer), as well as both operational pillars of the framework (i.e. the rules of constructive feedback, and the general structuring of a processing: in this chapter we will also have a detailed look at the unfolding of reversed enactment processing.
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Some consider psychodrama as a humanistic method per se. Some others do not. Therefore we have chosen to call ‘humanistic psychodrama’ that type of psychodrama which integrates both J. L. Moreno’s method and Carl R. Rogers Person Centered Approach (Rogers is considered to be the founder of the humanistic approach).
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“Any human being, as valid as anyone else, will at any time consider internal and external circumstances and choose what is best for him - or least detrimental” (Apter, 2003). That is a basic principle in person centered psychotherapy, as well as in psychodrama’s resource orientation developed by J. L. Moreno.
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If feedback is not receivable or not received, it will hardly be of use to the addressee.
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Giving feedback, showing the other person the image of himself that he/she prompts within us invariably implies revealing to him what kind of mirror we are. We all know what mirrors do. Their reflection is not always pleasing: either the image is too small, too big, too crude or it is slightly deformed. That is typical of mirrors. It is therefore not surprising to see the person addressed by the feedback wishing to speak up, to comment, to adjust, to refine, to clarify, to explain. Such retro-action is necessary after feedback. It is especially important in a group setting, as it avoids for a trainee to find himself powerless, full with all that feedback, including sometimes a bitter aftertaste. Giving the trainee the possibility to express his feelings in reaction to the feedback allows for completion of the interaction.
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In some particularly hazardous situations recalling the rules of feedback.
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Apter, N. (2012). Humanistic processing: the supervisor’s role through reverse enactment. In: Krall, H., Fürst, J., Fontaine, P. (eds) Supervision in Psychodrama. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19679-4_3
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