Group elaboration of the countertransference in individual psychoanalytic psychodrama

One of the therapeutic vectors of individual psychodrama lies in the meeting of several clinicians within a clinical experience shared as a group with a single patient. Radically different from experiences of individual treatment, this configuration could appear to carry the germ of a possible confusion, in particular as a result of the number of co-therapists present. However, if we consider that a group elaboration can be carried out around the transfero-countertransferential dynamic induced by the patient taken into treatment by the group, this potential “cacophony” can lead to a psychic elaboration which will find its most developed expression at the very heart of the psychodrama. Opening onto a reflection that is organized as much by the clinical experience of the session as by the elaborations which accompany it on the periphery, this article shows how the group metabolize the transferential elements which are deployed there, subsequently shaping the involvement of its participants and making room for unrepresented contents.