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The author is a well known and creative psycho-dramatist and Jungian psychoanalyst. Her book offers a very rich collection of cases, basically examples from psychodramatic teaching seminars. Readers who are not familiar with classical Morenian psychodrama will find a suitable introduction which explains the basic techniques of role reversal, doubling, etc. Scategni's Jungian background is useful for reflecting group processes and the archetypal dynamics of enactment. A glossary contains both Morenian and Jungian terms.
The book's central “technique” (or better: theme) is dream-reenactment. As M. Karp writes in her foreword, “an in-depth exploration of dreams enacted and analysed in the group unfolds in a free associative manner. As it unfolds, the bridge between present time and space gently unfurls, connecting it to the time and space of the soul”. This in-depth exploration is by no means reducing analytic group work to mere scientific curiosity. The process reflected in the book is itself an archetypal quest, “the constellation of the archetype as transformation”, as Scategni entitles her second part. Collective themes of this archetypal voyage are experienced in specific group situations.
It is true that Moreno (contrasting with Freud and Jung) “gave dream work a rather marginal position in the total sum of his work” (p. 17). In other words: As far as Moreno's oeuvre is concerned, Scategni chooses a rather peripherical topic. Nevertheless, the dream as a drama, as Jung saw it, is a central subject in the theatre of psychotherapy and in the theatre of the dreamer's body.