@article{2015,title={THE EFFECT OF PSYCHODRAMA ON HEALING OF PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS},abstractNode={This study aims to determine that some psychosomatic pains are not grounded only on physiological or biological foundations, these pains may be psychogenic, or they may even originate from negative past experiences evolved in growth phases in childhood and stored in the memory, and that the person may decrease the pain level by confronting these past experiences via psychodrama. Two scales were used to measure the pain of the 60 students who reported having a psychosomatic pain in Fatih University. The first scale was “One-Dimensional Numeric Pain Evaluation Scale”, which was tested for validity and reliability by Tulunay-Tulunay (2000); the second one was “Multidimensional McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire”, which was adapted by Yazıcı, Eti, Arslan, Olgun (1998). 18 volunteer students were chosen from those who had the highest pain levels according to the scales. 9 of these 18 students were randomly identified as experimental and the other 9 as control group. In consequence of psychodrama sessions, it was found that by confrontation with traumatic childhood schemas and their influences on daily life, group members had developed awareness about some psychosomatic pain reasons. Therefore, their pain levels decreased in the group by time. As it was expected, data analysis showed that there was a significant difference between pretest and posttest scores of experimental group, so it can be concluded that the psychodrama program was effective on relieving psychosomatic pains. Moreover, it was recommended that this study might be supported by other psychodrama groups and also by neurobiological measurements.},author={Pervin Nedim BAL-Özlem ŞENER},year={2015},journal={The Journal of International Educational Sciences}}