A psychodrama director is the leader of a psychodrama

Psychodrama

Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy in which clients utilize spontaneous dramatization, role playing and dramatic self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives. Developed by Jacob L. Moreno, M.D. psychodrama includes elements of theater, often conducted on a stage where...

 session (usually a psychotherapist, psychologist, counsellor or other mental health

Mental health

Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...

 professional) who by his/her actions is aimed to help the protagonist

Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...

 enact significant scenes from his life and experiences in a meaningful and therapeutically beneficial way. The psychodrama director is also responsible for the overall psychotherapeutic process in the Psychodrama group. According to the founder of Psychodrama, Jacob L. Moreno

Jacob L. Moreno

Jacob Levy Moreno was a Jewish Romanian-born Austrian-American leading psychiatrist and psychosociologist, thinker and educator, the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy...

, the director is one of the five basic elements of psychodrama: protagonist

Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...

, auxiliary ego, audience, stage and director.