Scenotherapy uses dramatization for therapeutic and educational purposes. This therapeutic effect consists in that, in dramatizing them, one comes into contact with the latent conflicts themselves attenuated. Just as the viewer delivers without fear of the psychological processes that occur on the stage or on the screen, or as the child interacts with reality through play, dramatization also fulfills a function of expression, self-knowledge, and appeasement of Conflicts and latent fears. The theater can have a therapeutic, even preventive, function by staging something similar to a dream or a game, through which processes of projection and reintrojection of dissociated aspects of the personality are stimulated, facilitating personal integration and emotional maturation. By allowing expression of suffering and converting it, as it were, into a personal "work of art," it can contribute ...read more