Gametherapy (“Psychodrama on the table”) is author’s technique of work with toys, psychotherapy of deep personality, where psychotherapist is the leader and the “toys” take upon themselves the role of the “group”, which can include anything, everyday stuff. Therapist also uses paint, plasticine, pencils, bricks, puzzles, constructor, books for children, fairytales, psychotherapy metaphors and other visual arts which took or, by fate, didn’t take place in the lives of children or grown-ups.

Famous psychotherapist from Moscow, Roza Dmitrichenko, explained to “Novie Izvestiya”: “We all have known for a long time that stories told to us in childhood influence our whole lives. The first psychotherapist to notice this phenomenon was Eric Bern, who gave in-depth analysis of folktales and their scripts. Women, who were getting carried away by the “Beauty and the Beast”, which is the same as Russian “Alenkii zvetochek”, in childhood, are inclined to different dependencies – alcohol, drugs, love etc. “The Little Red Riding-hood”, in turn, is bloodcurdling by it’s content – it brings up from a little girl a potential victim of violence with distinct inclination to provoke behavior. Actually, not everything is that easy. It’s not enough to understand which story was the most important in the life of the child. It’s necessary to understand which role does the child play in the story. Quite possibly the child who has passion to “Cinderella” imagines herself as a wicked stepmother, and an admirer of “the Little Red Riding-hood” imagines herself as a wolf from the story. Agree that this is an absolutely different script. In psychotherapy any generalization is dangerous, it’s as individual as a person… (from an article by Elena Zhuravleva: Don’t wake “the Sleeping beauty” 27.05.2005)

The usage of toys in psychotherapy work gives possibilities for the client to examine, touch, listen, feel and remember the odour of what disturbed him for all these years and caused the desease, emptiness, loneliness, addictive or co-dependency behavior. The range of application of Gametherapy is quite broad and gives an opportunity to use it in groups and in individual work. The method provides the opportunity to work with posttraumatic stress syndrome, sadness, which became chronic, with an idea of abuse, early child traumas and amnestic component.

The method of Gametherapy helps to solve not only personal, but also, as a result of that, professional difficulties. In record time instruments of Gametherapy allows to obtain specific and tangible achievements in business: Strategic and creative selection, HRM (Human Research Management) Increase in work efficiency of each employee Efficiency of actions of the company in general Such approach gives Gametherapy wide range of interesting possibilities and in some cases specific advantages in front of other psychotherapy methods.

Attention! Usage of toys in psychoeducational or psychotherapeutic practice isn’t a sufficient condition for being added to the list of authors of Gametherapy (“psychodrama on the table”).

Gametherapy is allowed only to medical and psychology specialists, who gained a certificate of gametherapist from the author of the method – Dmitrichenko, R.N.