Change of Parents-Child Relations through Psychodrama (Part 1)

Inter-Relational Role-Enactments of Auxiliary-Egoes

Abstract

Faculty of Home Economics, Ochanomizu University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112The purpose of this research is to do methodological exploration of the psychodramas for Home Economics in which practice, study and education would be carried out simultaneously.
In this research the author explores the process in which parents-child relations change from the dyadic relations to the triadic relations through some psychodramas based on the Science of Relationships (founded by Prof. Kohei Matsumura). These psychodramas have been played in child clinical activities or in clinical nursery activities in which children, parents and therapists/research workers participated together independently and cooperatively and experienced new human relations. Through these psychodramas parents have come to take roles of “inter-relational” auxiliary-egoes and to develop human relations in daily lives with children and other family members.