The reception of psychodrama in Spain: Correspondence between Jacob Levy Moreno and Ramón Sarró.

Jacob Levy Moreno, the well-known creator of psychodrama, had a close epistolary relationship with the Spanish psychiatrist Ramón Sarró; a collection of these letters has been located in the Sarró personal archive, deposited in the Library of Catalonia. After locating and arranging this correspondence, we proceeded to analyze and contextualize its contents. The analysis of this collection serves as a basis to outline the context in which the relationship between Moreno and Sarró developed, the role played by certain psychotherapy congresses in strengthening their relationships, and the process that resulted in the University of Barcelona awarding Moreno Doctor Honoris Causa. This study has allowed us to identify certain areas of how psychodrama was received in Spain during the 1960s and reflect on the creation of international collaboration networks and the creation of schools and professional and academic legitimation strategies in the wake of the approaches to group psychotherapy and psychodrama that Moreno developed while based in New York. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

O Psicodrama clínico on-line: uma conexão possível / Online clinical psychodrama: a possible connection / Psicodrama clínico en línea: una posible conexión

Este artigo tem por objetivo refletir sobre as possibilidades de atuação em psicoterapia da relação, psicodrama bipessoal e psicodrama interno, por meio de atendimentos on-line. Foram utilizados relatos de experiência para ilustrar as possibilidades em relação a etapas, instrumentos e técnicas. Ao longo da discussão, é clarificado que a ação espontânea do psicodramatista frente ao cliente é imprescindível. Portanto, no atendimento on-line, é possível a manutenção do aquecimento, a aplicação das técnicas e o manejo das cenas, considerando a necessidade do reconhecimento de cenário do paciente e do diretor, bem como da possibilidade do recurso da realidade suplementar para o alcance de cenas, objetos ausentes e personagens.(AU)

This article aims to reflect on the acting possibilities in relationship psychotherapy, bipersonal psychodrama, and internal psychodrama, through online activities. Experience reports were used to illustrate the possibilities in relation to stages, instruments and techniques. Throughout the discussion, it is clarified that the spontaneous action of the psychodramatist towards the client is essential. Therefore, in online care, it is possible to maintain the heating, to apply the techniques and to manage the scenes, considering the need to recognize the patient's and the director's scenario, as well as the possibility of using the supplementary reality to reach the scenes, missing objects, and characters.(AU)

Este artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre las posibilidades de actuar en psicoterapia relacional, psicodrama bipersonal y psicodrama interno a través de actividades en línea. Fueron utilizados relatos de experiencia para ilustrar como posibilidades en relação à etapas, instrumentos y técnicas. A lo largo de la discusión, é clarificado que acción espontánea del psicodramatista frente al cliente é imprescindible. Por lo tanto, en atendimiento en línea, es posible manutención de calefacción, aplicación de las técnicas y manejo das cenas, la necesidad de un reconocimiento del centro del paciente y el director, debido a la posibilidad de un recurso de realimentación suplementaria para el alcance de los cenas, objetos ausentes e personajes.(AU)

Integrative systematic review of psychodrama psychotherapy research: Trends and methodological implications.

BACKGROUND: Psychodrama is an experiential psychotherapy in which guided role-play is used to gain insights and work on personal and interpersonal problems and possible solutions. Despite the wealth of literature describing clinical work, psychodrama intervention research is relatively scarce compared to other psychotherapies and psychological interventions. OBJECTIVE: For this reason we implemented the integrative approach to systematic review that authorizes the combination of publications with diverse methodologies and all types of participants, interventions, comparisons, and outcomes. Our aim was to produce a comprehensive summary of psychodrama intervention research in the last decade that critically evaluates methodological issues to inform future studies. METHODS: We searched four major electronic databases (PsycINFO, PubMEd, Scopus by Elsevier, and Web of Science) for peer-reviewed articles on psychodrama interventions published in English between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2017. The quality of qualitative and mixed methods studies was assessed on the basis of pre-established guidelines, and the risk of bias was assessed for all quantitative randomized control studies, consistent with the PRISMA protocol. FINDINGS: The database search and a hand search resulted in 31 psychodrama intervention publications. Overall, these studies examined the effects of psychodrama on more than 20 different outcomes and most studies had adult clients. The next largest group was adolescents, whereas only two studies involved children. Thus psychodrama intervention research in the last decade suggests there are promising results in all methodologies, and highlights the need to enhance methodological as well as reporting quality and to theorize and examine modality-specific mechanisms that lead to therapeutic change. Recommendations to improve methodology, transparency, and specificity in reporting future psychodrama and other psychotherapy research are discussed.

Social Psychotherapy in Brazil.

This paper describes the practice of sociodrama, a method created by J. L. Moreno in the 1930s, and the Brazilian contemporary socio-psychodrama. In 1970, after the Fifth International Congress of Psychodrama was held in Brazil, group psychotherapy began to flourish both in private practice and hospital clinical settings. Twenty years later, the Brazilian health care system added group work as a reimbursable mental health procedure to improve social health policies. In this context, socio-psychodrama became a key resource for social health promotion within groups. Some specific conceptual contributions by Brazilians on sociodrama are also noteworthy.

["Theater of the body" -- the possibilities of psychodrama in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome]. / "A test szinháza" - az irritábilis bél szindróma kezelésének lehetoségei a pszichodrámában.

We present the case and psychodrama therapy of a patient suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). First we provide a review of the literature on IBS. The therapeutic possibilities of psychodrama are in the dramatization of the perception of one's own body. Interpersonal communication is the focus of group work: the greatest challenge for the patient is the expression of her emotions, impulses, wishes - without somatization. The source of the non-specific psychotherapeutic effect is the free, spontaneous and creative communication and the rediscovery of play.

Current developments in the practice of individual psychoanalytic psychodrama in France.

The authors present the history of individual psychoanalytic psychodrama and its current developments as practised in France. They put forward the technique, objectives and rules, along with the indications, limits and risks that ensue from the specific nature of this therapeutic approach. Through its technical adjustments, individual psychoanalytic psychodrama provides a therapeutic option that is appropriate to the defences prevalent in many patients that cause classical psychotherapies to fail: massive inhibition, operative functioning far removed from affects or in false self mode; phobias, disavowal or splitting of the internal psychic life and emotions; prevalence of short discharge circuits in acted-out behaviours and bodily or visceral complaints and expressions. Psychodrama utilizes these defences not in order to eliminate them but to 'subvert' them so that they can continue to carry out their protective role, in particular ensuring narcissistic continuity. At the same time, psychodrama relaxes these defences and facilitates a possible filtering through of the repressed material. Through the number of actors and the diffraction of transference that this allows, psychodrama provides a possibility of adjusting the potentially traumatic effect of the encounter with the object and the instigation of the transference in the regressive dimension induced by any psychotherapeutic process.

O psicodrama como uma estratégia pedagógica no ensino da saúde do trabalhador / Psychodrama as a pedagogical teaching strategy about worker's health

Este estudo teve como objetivo relatar a experiência da utilização do psicodrama pedagógico como uma estratégia de ensino/aprendizagem sobre a Saúde do Trabalhador. Foi realizado com 18 alunos da pós-gradua-ção em nível de mestrado da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto/USP, durante o 2º semestre de 2002. Inicialmente desenvolveu-se atividades interativas, dinâmicas, interpessoais e jogos de papéis, buscando a espontaneidade dos alunos e dos educadores/coordenadores. O referencial utilizado foi a teoria psicodramática de Moreno. Os resultados demonstraram êxito, aja vista que ocorreu criatividade, raciocínio lógico, envolvimento com o aprendizado, organização de conceitos utilizando as vivências de cada um, e assim o todo foi construído

Fundamentos de la psicoterapia de grupo en la práctica médica (II): sobre el método psicodramático / Foundations of group psychotherapy in medical practice (II): about the psychodramatic method

El psicodrama es un método y una teoría abierta basada en la representación escénica espontánea, donde se hacen revivir los conflictos intrapsíquicos e interpersonales. Podríamos describir tres etapas diferenciadas en la evolución del psicodrama: una primera en la que se desarrolla el teatro de la espontaneidad, el sociodrama y el psicodrama; una segunda en la que influyen los experimentos y experiencias gestálticas y transaccionales y una tercera en la que se intenta integrar el groupanalysis y el psicodrama en una perspectiva multicultural. En la etapa actual muchas teorías y escuelas de grupo, han quedado aisladas recreando la fantasía de sobrevivir en posiciones alternativas. Podemos afirmar que el group-analysis y el psicodrama buscan en la actualidad una fusión imposible desde las perspectivas teóricas y epistemológicas. En la actualidad han progresado las escuelas de dramaterapia con el objetivo principal del uso curativo de los aspectos del drama y el teatro en el proceso terapéutico. Es un método de trabajo e interpretación para facilitar la creatividad, la imaginación, el aprendizaje, el insight y el desarrollo personal. Sin embargo, las relaciones entre psicodrama y dramaterapia son confusas y carentes de diferenciación específica (AU)

Psicodrama y dramaterapia: sus posibilidades para la supervisión de clínicos y terapeutas / Psicodrama and dramatherapy: proposal for supervision clinical and therapeutic

Nuestra propuesta de supervisión para clínicos y terapeutas que trabajan con duelos se basa en la utilización de técnicas de acción, partiendo del psicodrama moreniano hasta formas más ligadas al arte teatral como la dramaterapia y el teatro espontáneo. Dada la creciente demanda de supervisión como una manera de prevenir el síndrome de desgaste profesional y de fomentar el autocuidado, nos parace que las técnicas antes mencionadas promueven el trabajo en grupos multidisciplinarios, el reforzamiento de los equipos y la resolución colateral de los conflictos a través de la metáfora teatral y del distanciamiento estético. Los elementos comunes que ligan este tipo de aproximación son: La escena, el grupo y el drama, entendido éste como acción a desarrollarse en un escenario. La "dramática" se define como la ciencia de las escenas y actualmente sólo alcanza un nivel pre-disciplinar. Para clínicos y terapeutas involucrados intensamente en el trabajo con duelos y pérdidas es pertinente involucrar el cuerpo, el gesto y la acción dramática en la supervisión. En nuestro enfoque ésta queda como la exposición del drama interno del protagonista, que puede ser el próximo profesional de la salud. La supervisión puede ser vista como una modelización de las dramatizaciones colectivas, es decir, como multiplicaciones meta dramáticas.

From classical to eclectic psychodrama: conceptual similarities between psychodrama and psychodynamic and interpersonal group treatments.

A study was conducted to explore the hypothesis that contemporary U.S. psychodramatists evince a shift from strict adherence to the conceptual frame of reference espoused by classical psychodrama toward a degree of sharing concepts with those valued by psychodynamic and interpersonal group therapists. Sixty-two senior psychodramatists ranked a form comprised of 44 concepts. Their rankings were compared to the results of a study by Dies (1992). In general, the results supported the hypothesis.

Estudio psicopatobiográfico de Strindberg. Autobiografía y psicopatología, V: Infierno / A study of Strindberg's psychopathobiography. Autobiography and psychopathology, V: Inferno

Analizamos desde las perspectivas fenomenológica y psicoanalítica la crisis psicopatológica más importante sufrida por Strindberg en "Infierno". Comparamos los diversos estudios patográficos, destacando los de Jaspers y Lidz, para criticar las conclusiones obtenidas, aportando nuevos datos desde las fuentes biográficas y literarias. Se confirma el diagnóstico de esquizofrenia y resaltamos los orígenes de las ideas delirantes e interpretaciones delirantes, desde la omnipotencia narcisística, la ruptura del vínculo y la personalidad susceptible del dramaturgo (AU)