Abstract

This dramatherapy process puts forward the elaboration and then the investigation of a fictitious character created in the mind of an individual's imagination. This process uses some fundamental and specific concepts of the dramatherapy such as spontaneity, distancing, play space and role. The phenomenological experiment took place during the winter 2002 when we created a group of persons able to work with the imagination in a non-directive way. The characters created by two members of the group will describe the process. On the therapeutic level, a side-approach was voluntarily used to shed a different light on the individual's problem. The goals to achieve were the identification and the integration of interiorised aspects that previously prevented the reaching of a sense of self regulated to the reality and not to the mourning coming from the past. It is possible to believe that the emergence of this inner space has a therapeutical value for the individual able to perceive it as one of the triggering factors of his psychological distress or like in this case, depression.