Ego States Through Bipersonal Psychodramatic Experience: The Externalization of Internal Roles (Parts)

Abstract

This article aims to present the clinical management for externalization of internal roles or parts, through psychodramatic experience, based on the techniques of Moreno and Rojas-Bermúdez, such as the construction of three-dimensional and two-dimensional images through people, objects, puppets, tissues and the internal psychodrama developed by other authors. The genesis of the parts, in general, is related to dissociation resulting from trauma or the introjection of significant parental figures, especially when the attachment is insecure. Complex traumas related to bullying, sexual abuse, domestic violence of various natures throughout the child’s development will bring to light these internal parts, which need to be well understood because they affect various social roles. Internal roles, parts, partial self, internal division, characters, ego states, wounded children, subpersonalities are denominations of the same phenomenon, which is manifested by the multiplicity of selves. This phenomenon is also observed in the field of neurosis and in normotics.