Psychodrama is an action method, often used as a psychotherapy, in which clients use spontaneous dramatization, role playing and dramatic self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives.
Winning the presidency would be the latest in a lifetime of dramatic, self-induced transformations.
Everywhere there is a sense of dramatic self-heightening as though he feels the pain of things more than most.
Milo's matter-of-fact, almost pragmatic self-loathing recalls both the meticulous self-hatred of Thomas Bernhard's protagonists and the bolder, dramatic self-hatred of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's.
When Buddhist monks resorted to dramatic self-immolation in front of Western news cameras, Kennedy secretly instructed Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to approve a military coup.
In 1962 she took over the role of Violetta in La Traviata, followed by an appearance as a "dramatic, self-willed" Marenka in The Bartered Bride and Micaëla in Carmen.
Today the tendency is to create puppets quickly from scrap materials or from natural objects and to perform them impromptu, without rehearsal, as a form of dramatic self-expression.
When I asked if he would lend us a picture of himself for the magazine cover, he handed me the vividly dramatic self-portrait of himself as a grumpy young man, with red-rimmed glaring eyes.
But this is probably just what his admirers like: he does not have the big, dramatic, self-enhanced sound that opera singers work years to develop and opera haters find innately off-putting.
"Son of a Preacher Man" is an eclectic, if often sober album, spanning vintage big-band country comedy ("Drive Myself to Drink"), dramatic self-confrontation ("Another You") and shameless romance ("I Thought You'd Never Ask," which Mr. Rich wrote to propose to his future wife, Joan).
Others have gone in for dramatic self-reinventions.
