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Dramatology. Dramatology shares goals and values with the theory of dramatism proposed by the literary critic Kenneth Burke. However, dramatology differs from dramatism as it is a new synthesis and emphasis of fundamental importance for psychiatry and psychoanalysis and thus represents a new paradigm for these two professions.

Dramatology completes narratology. The patient and the therapist alternate in their role of speaker and listener and in processes of reciprocal free association and continuing mutual evocation of images, which coalesce into acts of interpretation and create insight. In real life, the person who comes to a psychiatrist or psychoanalyst presents as a unique individual in physical appearance, clothing, caste and cultural identity and who communicates in an individual style through words and emotion, tone of voice, posture and gesture of face, body, and limbs, and more. The story the person tells, different from a story written, is in itself the beginning of an ongoing dramatic relationship. All the person’s behaviors are translated by the psychiatrist into symptoms, syndromes, and systems, and molded into diagnoses, e.g., of a Kraepelinian or a Jaspersian orientation. As a result, the individual’s uniqueness will be lost in the process of abstraction and generalization. The psychoanalyst, in addition to the above, will formulate the person’s individual behaviors as the dynamics of transference.

Dramatology-inspired interpersonal drama therapy  respects the importance of diagnoses and interpretive dynamic formulas in scientific discourse and elsewhere, it strives to make contact with the living reality of the person in the therapeutic encounter beyond the labels and formulaic interpretations, using participant observation (Harry Stack Sullivan), empathy, and free association, and confrontation as some of its basic tools. In the process of interpersonal drama therapy the so-called symptoms of disorder are translated back to events in the patient’s life story, of which these symptoms are the manifest derivative forms. :