Role reversal
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Role reversal
- Here are entered works on a type of role playing in which two participants exchange roles with each other, e.g. teacher and pupil, parent and child.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005979
- info:lc/authorities/sh99005979
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh99005979#concept
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Variants
- Reversal of roles
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Sources
- found: Freaky Friday [VR] 1991 (based on M. Rogers' novel Freaky Friday, c1972 in which a thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body)
- found: Sprechman, E.L. Seeing women as men : role reversal in the novels of Thomas Hardy, c1995.
- found: Longman dict. of psych. and psychiatry, c1984 (Role reversal: a technique of psychodrama in which the protagonist exchanges roles with an auxiliary in acting out a significant interpersonal situation. Role reversal is also used in management development programs, in which, e.g. the supervisor and the employee exchange roles)
- found: Reber, A. The Penguin dict. of psych., c1985 (Role reversal: a reversing of the social roles of two persons involved in a reciprocal roles relationship, e.g. the teacher becomes the pupil and vice versa, the dominant member of a pair becomes the submissive and the submissive the dominant)
- notfound: Web. Intl. dict.;Web. Collegiate dict.
General Notes
- Here are entered works on a type of role playing in which two participants exchange roles with each other, e.g. teacher and pupil, parent and child.
Change Notes
- 1999-08-12: new
- 1999-10-15: revised
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