Drama: Case Study

A woman with a pronounced and disabling stammer used a story of a lost traveller making a journey. Without knowing it she gave the traveller a heavy burden when she acted the story. It became obvious that this burden was related to something traumatic in her past. The therapist saw this and together they experimented with different ways of removing the burden but only while acting the role of the traveller. The therapist noticed that the stammer had gone. The woman was then able to use her voice to find words through which she could disclose the root of her problem.