[Parameters and frames in psychodrama]

Psychodrama is considered as a parabola in the sense of an open curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane, for the scenes enacted by the participants can be viewed as a cutting in the actual life aimed to revive the personal past as well as to begin the building of the personal future. It is considered also as a parable, a fictitious narrative that yields a moral truth and a learning, for while there is no reality in it, the purpose that supports it is to improve one's psychic equilibrium, which means to live according to true feelings. One special way of materializing this is explained. It consists, in offering certain themes to dramatize to the members or the group. These themes are chosen by their power to activate significant zones of the personality, and always taking into account the emotional climate that prevails. Sometimes they emerge from the initiative of the participants and they can also be changed during the performances. Some examples are given, which have revealed themselves as adequate to the parameters pursued, which resume themselves in the promotion of autonomy and authenticity.