The contributors to this book provide persuasive evidence of how psychodrama can safely be used to create paths of change for even the most severe trauma and they also discuss the possible transmission of trauma patterns across generations. The book documents the impact of trauma and explores the development of treatment.

Foreword. Introduction. Part 1. Treating Trauma in Action. 1. The Therapeutic Aspects of Psychodrama with Traumatized People, Peter Felix Kellermann. Part 2. Loss: The Core Emotion of Trauma. 2. Psychodramatic Methods for Facilitating Bereavement, Adam Blatner. 3. Brief Psychodrama and Bereavement, Marisol Filgueira Bouza and Jose Antonio Espina Barrio. Part 3. Traumatized People: From Victims to Survivors. 4. Psychodrama of Rape and Torture: A Sixteen-year Follow-up Case Study, Marcia Karp. 5. The Use of Psychodrama with Trauma Victims, Eva Roine. 6. Prisoners of the Family: Psychodrama with Abused Children, Anne Bannister. 7. The Use of Psychodrama in the Treatment of Trauma and Addiction, Tian Dayton. 8. Psychodrama with Adolescent Sexual Offenders, Marlyn Robson. 9. Time's Distorted Mirror: Trauma Work with Adult Male Sex Offenders, Clark Baim. 10. Psychodramatic Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder, Kerry Paul Altman. 11. Appearance and Treatment of Dissociative States of Consciousness in Psychodrama, Grete A. Leutz. 12. Psychodrama with Survivors of Traffic Accidents, Jorg Burmeister. Part 4. Experiential Models of Healing. 13. The Therapeutic Spiral Model: Treating PTSD in Action, M.K.Hudgins. 14. Cycles of Healing: The Treatment of Developmental Trauma, John Raven Mosher and Brigid Yukman. Part 5. Breaking the Links: Transmission. 15. Health and Death: Hidden Links Through the Family Tree, Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger. 16. Psychodrama with Vietnam Veterans and their Families: Both Victims of Traumatic Stress, Michael Burge. 17. Secondary Victims of Trauma: Producing Secondary Survivors, Rory Remer. Index.