| LC control no. | sh 99005979 |
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| Topical heading | Role reversal |
| Variant(s) | Reversal of roles |
| See also | Role playing Social role |
| Scope note | 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. |
| Found in | 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) Sprechman, E.L. Seeing women as men : role reversal in the novels of Thomas Hardy, c1995. 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) 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) |
| Not found in | Web. Intl. dict.; Web. Collegiate dict. |
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