Role reversal is a psychotherapeutic technique in psychodrama that demonstrates a protagonist's intrapersonal conflicts deeply and explicitly on the stage.
[5] Role reversal involves the changing of positions between the protagonist and their significant other, such as family members, friends, or people in school or in a workplace.
The protagonist is invited to show the posture, the way of speaking, the behavior, the emotion, the attitude, and any other information of their significant other.
Yablonsky provides the daughter description, for example: "From the vantage point of my mother, I saw for the first time that she feels badly about her age and her looks and is putting me down because she has begun to compete with me.
[7] Paul Holmes[9] mentions that this technique also enables other group members to learn the protagonist's view of important people.
Role reversal helps the protagonist see their interpersonal relationships more objectively and transcend the habitual limitations of egocentricity.