Gametherapy (Psychodrama on the table), is author’s technique of “work with toys”, psychotherapy of deep personality, where psychotherapist is the director and the “toys” take upon themselves the role of the “group”, which can include anything, everyday stuff. Therapist also uses paint, plasticine, pencils, bricks, puzzles, constructor, books for children, fairytales, psychotherapy metaphors and other visual arts which took or, by fate, didn’t take place in the lives of children or mature children.
(from an article by Elena Zhuravleva: Don’t wake “the Sleeping beauty” 27.05.2005)
The usage of toys in psychotherapy work gives possibilities for the client to examine, touch, listen, feel and remember the odour of what disturbed him for all these years and caused the desease, emptiness, loneliness, addictive or co-dependency behavior.
The range of application of Gametherapy is quite broad and gives an opportunity to use it in groups and in individual work. The method provides the opportunity to work with posttraumatic stress syndrome, sadness, which became chronic, with an idea of abuse, early child traumas and amnestic component.
The method of Gametherapy helps to solve not only personal, but also, as a result of that, professional difficulties. In record time instruments of Gametherapy allows to obtain specific and tangible achievements in business:
- Strategic and creative selection, HRM (Human Research Management);
- Increase in work efficiency of each employee;
- Efficiency of actions of the company in general.
Such approach gives Gametherapy wide range of interesting possibilities and in some cases specific advantages in front of other psychotherapy methods.