[Psychodrama in psychotic patients]

This experience was carried out over the years 1979/81 and 1983/4 at the Magnan ward of the Braulio Moyano Women's Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theory and the techniques of Psychodrama were applied to different groups of chronic psychotics, one of those groups being in a deep state of deterioration. Objects and therapeutic aims were to achieving changes in the patients' behavior, improving their socialization level as well as their communication links with their inmates and both their doctors and nurses. By means of both role playing and the nucleus of both the Ego and Scheme of Roles as a frame of reference it was aimed at recovering patients' integrative activity, thus increasing their re-adaptability to the familiar group an the society structure as well.