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À travers l’analyse de la violence naissant du seul fait de l’urgence, nous étudions le processus d’acting. Dans les services d’urgence, la technicité et l’efficacité médicales se lient paradoxale- ment à la confusion et aux difficultés de communication. Ce lieu devient ainsi propice à une mise en acte, dans la réalité, de fantasmes, de scènes familiales, de drames dont le déroulement s’agit à l’insu des malades, de leur famille et des praticiens. La scène des urgences ne doit pas être celle d’un psychodrame sauvage. L’urgentiste doit aussi tenir compte de l’opacité du fait psychique pour tenter de prévenir, au sein de son service, la commission d’actes violents qui n’émanent pas toujours de ses malades.

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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Emergency Medicine, Violence
- by Susana Pendzik
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- Psychology, Play Therapy, Psychodrama, Philosophy

People abused by angry discipline as children, may tend to abuse or overly punish other people or themselves for perceived wrongs in their adult life. In some individuals, aggressive personality traits may be genetically inherited. The aggressive personality may feel weakened by having guidelines or boundaries for anger. Anger is a normal human emotion, and these guidelines can help express anger in a healthy way.

- by ציקי כהן
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- Psychodrama, Martin Buber, מרטין בובר, פסיכודרמה
- by Bob Hartley
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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Cognitive Science, Intelligence
- by mooli lahad
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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Treatment, Clinical Sciences

Summary: The article compares theoetical background and therapeutic aims of two therapeutic interventions, psychodramatic role playing and the empty chair technique in Gestalt therapy. Both interventions are used also in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy in a specific Gestalt psychological understanding.
Zusammenfassung: Theoretische Hintergründe und
therapeutische Zielsetzungen zweier bekannter Interventionstechniken, nämlich der psychodramatischen „szenischen Darstellung“ und des gestalttherapeutischen „Dialoges mit dem leeren Stuhl“, die beide auch im integrativen Ansatz der Gestalttheoretischen Psychotherapie Anwendung finden, werden dargestellt. Dabei soll besonders die Ähnlichkeit beider Techniken in ihren therapeutischen Auswirkungen betont werden, auch wenn sich die therapeutischen Ansätze, in denen diese Techniken entwickelt
haben, in ihren theoretischen Konzepten unterscheiden.

- by Rainer Kästl
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- Psychodrama, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Gestalt Therapy
- by Gerald Clore
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- Marketing, Psychology, Psychodrama, Cognitive Science

This paper discusses how psychodrama methods and techniques can empower abused women and stimulate changes in their victim role. Through an in-depth exploration, we sought to gain an insider's perspective of the experiences of change and perceived outcomes for abused women, which could contribute to optimizing gender violence intervention. Theoretically, the study is grounded in the female co-responsibility and trans-generational transmission of women's victim role from mother to daughter. A mixed methods experimental design employing an explanatory sequential approach to data collection was implemented. A total sample of 33 abused women (15 in the experimental group, and 18 in the control group) was involved in studying the impact of a psychodrama intervention combined with an ecological intervention. Spontaneity and wellbeing, considered in this study as dimensions of empowerment, were measured. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with 7 women 3 months after the psychodrama intervention ended, and with 6 women 5 years later. Data was analyzed using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method. The matrix of themes that emerged reflects four overarching themes: the victim, the group experience, the process of change, and the corollary of change. Benefits perceived by the women include trust, hope, increased self-esteem, empowering, and courage to make decisions and changes. Findings describe three paths of change for women who participated in an empowering-oriented psychodrama intervention program: the Proactive-Resilient type, the Active-Resistant type, and the Repetitive-Non-Resilient type. Role-reconstruction and the interruption of trans-generational victim pattern were clear for the proactive type and possible for the active type, while the repetitive type showed minor changes but remained stuck in the victim pattern. As no claims to generalizability can be made, further research is needed to verify the proposed typology on larger samples. Psychodrama, as an action method, can empower abused women and has the potential to stimulate action in women's lives and initiate adaptive coping strategies leading to resilience. The study ends with several suggestions for assisted resilience specialists.

- by Ines Testoni and +1
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- Psychodrama, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Change process, Abused Women

This single group pretest-posttest study explores the effectiveness of trauma-focused psychodrama in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at an inpatient addiction treatment center. The results contribute to the limited research bases of both psychodrama and PTSD treatment outcomes in inpatient addiction treatment. The present study supports the potential effectiveness of two trauma-focused psychodrama models, the Therapeutic Spiral Model and the Relational Trauma Repair Model. Findings of the research demonstrate clinically significant reductions in overall PTSD symptoms (over 25% change) and each PTSD symptom cluster (i.e., re-experiencing and intrusion, avoidance and numbing, and hyper-arousal). Additionally, patient satisfaction exit survey data support overall treatment effectiveness and highlight its tolerability, and capacity for establishing emotional safety, connection, and group cohesion. Patients even described the trauma-focused psychodrama treatment approach as enjoyable and helpful. Overall, the results of this study are promising, and support continued clinical application of trauma-focused psychodrama treatment with other subpopulations diagnosed with PTSD. However, the ability to isolate effects of trauma-focused psychodrama in this study is compromised due to the absence of a control group and participants' involvement in other inpatient treatment services.

- by Scott Giacomucci
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- Group Therapy, Psychodrama, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma Studies

This paper describes the difficulties encountered in designing a research study requiring the measurement of stages of group development in a psychotherapy group. The author’s study, Psychodrama group processes: A study of participant’s experiences, is intended to explore the contribution of group process to the therapeutic outcome of a psychodrama group. Its aim is to examine the psychodramatic themes and issues that occur at varying stages of the group’s existence. Even though psychodrama is a group psychotherapy method, psychodrama researchers have traditionally focussed on psychodrama processes as if they were the only therapeutic agent at work in the group. They have neglected to assess the contribution played by group process to the overall therapeutic outcome. Group psychotherapy research indicates that the major therapeutic agent in group psychotherapy is the group itself. In reviewing the group development literature it was discovered that, after 70 years of research there is no consensus on group development models and theoretical frameworks. As an alternative to measuring group development, the group cohesiveness literature was reviewed. This, too, has suffered from an ongoing debate. There is lack of clarity and consensus about how to define and measure cohesiveness. Of the many measures available, none measure the full range of relationship structure and relationship quality within a group. This means that different measures applied to the same group will produce varying results. In order to assess the stage of group development it will be necessary to choose a measure that fits best and justify its use.

- by Elena Pietro
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- Ancient History, Psychodrama, Communication, Education

The demand for group work in social work practice has steadily increased while the group work education
provided in social work programs has exponentially declined. Social work education and social work practice
are intimately linked – one cannot be examined without considering the other. The historical, theoretical, and
clinical intersections of social work with groups and the triadic system of J.L. Moreno (sociometry,
psychodrama, and group psychotherapy) will be explored. Moreno’s work will be framed through a social
work lens with primary concepts defined. Two trauma-specific psychodrama models (Therapeutic Spiral
Model and Relational Trauma Repair Model) will be outlined with their emphasis on strengths, containment,
and safety. The clinical research and integrated neurobiology research will be presented as a growing evidence
base for psychodrama and experiential trauma therapy. Next, an overview of the state of sociometry,
psychodrama, and experiential group psychotherapy education will be outlined to provide a global and
historical contextualization with an emphasis on experiential education and its complimentary nature with
social work education. Finally, an MSW course curriculum will be provided to mediate the existing hole in
social work education resulting from the decline of group psychotherapy training.

- by Scott Giacomucci
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- Group Therapy, Psychodrama, Social Work, Trauma Studies

האתיקה מבקשת להסדיר את היחס אל הזולת ולהורות את הדרך לחיים הטובים.
היא מנסה להשיב על השאלה מהם עקרונות המוסר שלאורם עלינו לנהל את חיינו,
ובפרט את יחסי הגומלין שלנו עם אחרים. בהקשר הטיפולי האתיקה מייצגת בדרך
כלל "תפיסה בדבר ההתנהגות הראויה באותו תחום, תפיסה היכולה להיות מערכת
ערכים או מערכת עקרונות המבטאים ערכים" (כשר, .)2007היא מעניקה למטפל
מערכת של ערכים נורמטיביים המסדירים את כללי ההתנהגות הראויים ומשקפים
את הזהות של המקצוע ושל העוסקים בו.
המאמר מציע כי קיים רובד נוסף של נוכחות אתית שלא נידון רבות בספרות
התיאורטית, והוא התשתית הערכית שנגזרת מהתיאוריות הטיפוליות ומשפיעה על
ציפיותיו, על התערבויותיו ועל הבנתו של המטפל את המטופל. המאמר מתמקד
באידיאות שנגזרות מהפילוסופיה ההומניסטית-אקזיסטנציאליסטית ומאפיינות
את תחום הטיפול באמנויות בכלל, ואת הטיפול בפסיכודרמה בפרט. הוא מדגים
כיצד אידיאות אלו מתפקדות כפרדיגמת חשיבה ערכית, אשר לצד היותה מעודדת
מטפלים להיות קשובים ורגישים לסוגי שיח מסוימים, היא גם מצמצמת את
המודעות והרגישות שלהם לסוגי שיח אלטרנטיביים

- by Zeynep Karataş
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- Psychodrama, Anger, Adolescent, Group Psychotherapy
- by Laura Schreibman
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- Play Therapy, Psychodrama, Education, Autism
- by Sallyann Roth and +1
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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Social Work, Role Playing
- by Monit Cheung
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- Psychodrama, Social Work, Content Analysis, Metacognition
- by William Hawkes-Robinson
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- Group Therapy, Psychodrama, Education, Therapeutic Recreation
- by Marcos Bidart de Novaes
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- Psychodrama, Action Research, Creativity, Sociometry

No presente artigo abordamos a utilização de um novo espaço terapêutico, a relação psicodrama-musicoterapia, no qual integramos técnicas do psicodrama e da musicoterapia. Partimos do pressuposto de que a complementaridade entre estas técnicas permite potencializar O artigo que se segue tem por base um programa de desenvolvimento pessoal que concebemos, o programa Saber do Sentir, no qual usamos ferramentas do psicodrama e da musicoterapia. Encontra-se escrito na antiga ortografia.

- by Artur Correia
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- Psychodrama, Music Therapy
- by Dr. Solaiman R . ElSheikh and +1
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- Psychodrama, Communication Skills, Learning Disabilities
- by Scott Giacomucci
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- Group Therapy, Psychodrama, Social Work, Community Organizing
- by Charlotte Hopson
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- Psychodrama, Psychoanalysis, Surrealism, Melodrama

The paper argues that Legislative Theatre, as an artistic methodology for active citizenship, creates a process of collective reflection to produce solutions to community conflicts. Boal used this tool of transitive democracy to conceive legal proposals in favour of marginalised groups. Thirteen of these proposals were approved by the legal system in Brazil. The analysis of a Legislative Theatre workshop in Spain using Boal’s methodology allowed the identification of some interesting elements but also the limitations of the tool. Aspects including the ideology of the audience, the scope of the legal proposals and the role of the joker are seen as important. Other conditioning elements and positive aspects are also discussed

- by Eduardo Salvador
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- Psychodrama, Theatre Studies, Conflict Resolution, Social Theater

Th is paper discusses the contribution made by psychodrama role theory to sociology. It is well known that role theory was founded and disseminated in sociology, and specifi cally in social psychology; our goal therefore is to indicate the ways in which psychodrama can act as a bridge between sociology and psychology. J. L. Moreno, as the founder of psychodrama, strongly believed that psychodrama was more inclusive than sociology, particularly since it has practical and therapeutic aspects of role playing, and role reversal especially. Our idea is to emphasize and demonstrate how role reversal, role development, role analysis and the theatrical background of psychodrama are practical elements that result in therapeutic eff ects. Along with the theoretical elaborations of these aspects and contributions, we use examples from our ongoing weekly psychodrama group, which we have been leading as directors / co-therapists since 2014.

- by Iva Žurić Jakovina and +1
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- Sociology, Group Therapy, Psychodrama, Social Psychology
- by Romy Siegrist
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychodrama, Psychoanalysis
- by Susana Pendzik
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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Drama In Education, Expressive Arts Therapy

Respond to each numbered item in the short list here as either True or False for you. A “True” response may identify a potential area for training. Reflect on whether an item identifies a problem or issue in the way you manage your anger.... more

- by Michael Chase
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- Psychodrama, Rudolf Steiner, Spirituality & Counselling & Psychotherapy, Masks
- by Urania Rapti
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- Psychodrama, Experiential Psychotherapy and Councelling

Die Autorin geht in diesem Artikel der Frage nach, welche Faktoren in der therapeutischen Arbeit mit Märchen wirken. Anhand von Erkenntnissen aus der Märchenforschung werden die Voraussetzungen herausgearbeitet, die Märchen durch ihre Beschaffenheit und ihren besonderen Stil bieten, um den therapeutischen Prozess zu fördern. Zur Verdeutlichung der Wirksamkeit der Märchen wird das Erleben von Teilnehmerinnen im praktischen Ablauf einer Gruppentherapie mit Rollenspiel von Märchen auf dem Hintergrund des Modells der überlappenden Situation nach Lewin und des von Stemberger vorgeschlagenen Konzepts des Mehr-Felder- Ansatzes reflektiert.

- by christine semotan
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- Psychodrama, Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Psychology

Social work education fully endorses experiential learning through its field placement component, while experiential teaching methods are only somewhat used in the classroom. This article outlines the utility of action-based mutual aid processes in teaching social work. Three experiential sociometric group tools will be presented with their application in various social work education settings and at the beginning, middle, and ending stages of a course. Each of these sociometry processes-spectrograms, floor checks, and step-in sociometry, are depicted with their inherent capacity to cultivate mutual aid, bring the course content to life, and be adapted for any topic or classroom.

- by Scott Giacomucci
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- Group Therapy, Psychodrama, Social Work, Experiential Learning (Active Learning)
- by Susana Pendzik
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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Interactive Theatre, Drama In Education

Surveys and contextualizes recent New Zealand artists' cinema by genre including, Landscape, Psychodrama, Identity Politics, Visual Music, Installed & Expanded Cinemas, and Animation. Touches on aspects of Asian and Western philosophy... more

- by martin rumsby
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- Psychodrama, New Media, Animation, Installation Art

Polarization of the biological and psychosocial aspects of the human condition has long created aloofness between psychotherapists and neuroscientists, and prevented an open dialogue regarding a possible integrative approach. While we know that mind and brain are inseparable, the complexity of one’s unique
subjectivity, moreover intersubjectivity, is not easily translatable to the complexity of the brain’s chemistry and physiology. This overview incorporates current biological thinking about the relationship of mind to brain into the philosophy and techniques of psychodrama. J.L. Moreno’s concepts of encounter and role reversal are considered in light of the recent advances in cognitive neuroscience regarding creativity and empathy. These two faculties seem to be associated with opposite functioning in the prefrontal
cortex, empathy with activation and creativity with inhibition. Although the neural circuitry involved in the two phenomena would be more complex, evaluating these two mental processes within a neuroscientific framework offers a renewed outlook on psychodrama, including more sophisticated hypotheses of how psychodrama may affect brain functioning and vice-versa.

- by Dani Yaniv
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Psychodrama, Creativity

Edición impresa de una investigación que se abocó a validar la aplicación del método psicodramático a la orientación familiar, considerando a la familia como un grupo social primario y eje fundamental de la estructura social, mientras que el psicodrama se conceptualiza como un método de trabajo grupal e individual que, mediante técnicas de acción, permite explorar la situación vital y existencial de la persona. La investigación abarcó dos estudios. El primero consistió en un diagnóstico de las características dela población objetivo, que implicó un muestreo de tipo intencional basado en entrevistas a 12 familias de clase media y la aplicación de una variación de la escala de funcionamiento familiar desarrollada por Palomar. El segundo estudio incluyó el desarrollo, aplicación y evaluación de un programa de orientación familiar (OF) mediante el psicodrama, así como un taller de 12 sesiones, en cada una de las cuales se trabajó un tema específico. Participaron 10 estudiantes de preparatoria con un rango de edad de entre 16 y 18 años (7 mujeres y 3 hombres). Para la evaluación se consideró un diseño pre-experimental pre-postest, en el que se aplicó la escala de funcionamiento familiar completa. Los resultados muestran que los participantes pudieron observar con mucha claridad la realidad de su familia y compararla con la de los otros integrantes del grupo de estudio. Se puede conclui r que los dos campos se enriquecen ampliamente, tanto teórica como metodológicamente.

- by Jose Manuel Bezanilla
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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Education, Family

Tele is one of the most elusive and enigmatic concepts in psychodramatic theory. Although It represents one of the five main therapeutic factors that operate in psychodramatic practice, the lack of clarity and multiple meanings of the concept make it difficult to use clinically or even as a general therapeutic guideline. The present paper proposes that the concept of Tele may be elucidated by using Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialog. It demonstrates how Tele overlaps with Buber’s concept of I-Thou and how, for both concepts, it is the intersubjective encounter which is the mainstay of self-constitution. This paper maintains that the concept of Tele represents a major therapeutic idea, namely, that selfhood may only be revealed and expanded via an authentic meeting with another selfhood. The notion of Tele invites the therapist to encourage the creation of an I-Thou relation in the therapeutic space, based on the assumption that this is the main road through which the patient may connect with his or her deep subjectivity.

- by ציקי כהן
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- Psychodrama, Intersubjectivity, Martin Buber, Jacob Levy Moreno

This paper describes a group work training offered in 2011 for 60 highly diverse staffers to a GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness of and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) educational grant P334A990515 for the San Jose, CA area. Multiethnic, multi-aged trainees with varying educational levels and backgrounds were brought together as a cohort for the first time for training purposes. In 4 full days of hands-on, active engagement training, they were instructed in application of psychodrama and sociometry techniques to engage poor and minority students and their families in middle school, high school and college retention. Uses of psychodrama and sociodrama to support education in diverse communities are reviewed and explained. Advantages of using experiential learning and action methods to enhance learning, engage low performing students, and build social cohesion are discussed.

- by Erica Hollander
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- Psychodrama, Creativity, Sociometry, Sociodrama

This article explores four forms with seemingly different purposes and yet many similarities, as well as "change" in these forms. It goes through the characteristics of each form and compares them and analyses the forms through Moreno's (1978) Canon of Creativity to find out how and what kind of change they support. The article is original and has not been published in other journals. Resumen: Este artículo explora cuatro formas con propósitos aparentemente diferentes y, sin embargo, con muchas similitudes, así como el "cambio" en estas. Recorre las características de cada formulario, las compara y las analiza a través del Canon de la creatividad de Moreno (1978) para averiguar cómo y qué tipo de cambio admiten. Palabras clave: psicodrama, teatro playback, sociodrama, larp, edularp, cambio, aprendizaje, comparación. El artículo es original y no ha sido publicado en otras revistas.

- by Jori Pitkänen
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- Psychodrama, Playback Theatre, Personal Growth, Sociodrama
- by Jesús Antonio García Casal
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- Psychology, Psychodrama, Cultural Psychology, Playback Theatre

Human mind is hypothesis-driven and our observations of the world are strongly shaped by preconceptions. This " top-down " principle is biologically driven and contraindicative to spontaneity, which is non-linear, condensed, and initially incomprehensible. My first argument is that spontaneity entails " bottom up " information processing, as articulated in the hierarchical neurocognitive model of perception. My second argument is that changing the balance between these two processes is important and feasible. Insights from psychodynamic transference and savant syndrome are presented to support these ideas. Uniting these contemporary notions with some essentials of J. L. Moreno's philosophy is my third goal. By violating predictions and expectations, psychodrama interferes with top-down " conserved " processing and cultivates here and now, stimulus-dependent spontaneous acts. Further evidence is presented in support of the claim that adult spontaneity leads to enhanced cognition and creativity through imitating the child's brain, as Moreno envisioned. Because spontaneity is formed before having the evidence for its truth or adequacy, it entails, in adults, overcoming apprehensions about acting without a theory in mind. This is what trusting-the-process means and it requires training, which psychodrama fosters on its stage laboratory.

- by Dani Yaniv
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychodrama