Role categorizations

Role categorizations were developed on the field of professional psychology but one can find such categorizations in phylosophy or at the level of everyday thinking. (To be extended.)

Psychodrama uses Moreno's Role Theory extensively and developes role categorizations based on experience. (To be extended.)

The first role categorization was developed by J.L. Moreno connected to his developmental theory and used as an explanation for role development also. This categorization is quite simple, consisting of 3 or four categories: the categories of Somatic, Psychodramatic and Social roles. Later Greta Leutz gave a fouth category to these ones, the category of Transcendent roles to capture ranspersonal phenomena. These categories can be connected in some extent to basic psychodramatic techniques as doubling, mirroring and role reversal and developmental stages as the All identity, All reality in the first universe of the psyche and to the second universe. (To be cleared.)
Another role categorization was developed by Max Clayton who declared two dimensions for role categories. The first is connected to the stage of development of a role, the Size categorization. Here he defined categories as Adequate, Overdeveloped, Underdeveloped and Embrionic role categories. The other dimension deals with Role evaluation including Fragmenting, Coping and Constructive role categories. These two dimensions are clearly bond to therapeutic thinking, having both diagnostic and intervention value.

There are useful role categorizations in other fields of psychology. Transactional Analysis defines Child, Parent and Adult states, that describe the manner how an individual percieves the environment and generates responses to input. These states of mind can be used also as a role categorization (that we call TA categorization).

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