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Originally Posted by Foomph
I looked it up some more and it's basically where you imagine significant people or a person in the room and talk to them as if it was real time whenever the trauma happened.
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Also you sometimes get to switch chairs and speak
for them.
I've read about it and occasionally been in groups where it was done, but only been in the "hot seat" a tiny bit myself. I thought it made a huge difference who was conducting the session.
Fritz Perls, who either invented it or popularized it, used to use it a lot to look at people's dreams with them. The person in the hot seat would recite some tense drama involving several bigger-than-life characters and also mention something trivial like, oh, a blue bowl on the table. Fritz would tell them, "Now be the blue bowl" -- and (the way he told it, anyway) that would turn out to be the key to the whole dream.
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Disclaimer: I never met Fritz Perls, only read some of his books.