Theory and Practice of Psychodrama

Recommended Prerequisites

None.

Teaching Methods

Expository methodology and active and experiential learning of attitudinal competences and relation.

Learning Outcomes

1. To make known the essential aspects of Psychodrama: its history, basic components, main techniques, contexts of application and currents, with special emphasis on Morenian psychodrama and psychoanalytic psychodrama.

Identify the essential moments in the story of the emergence of psychodrama.

Identify the fundamental instruments of the practice of psychodrama.

Recognize the techniques applied in psychodramatic context.

Apply the fundamental psychodramatic techniques in a simulation context.

Identify the essential components of a group's dynamics.

To foster a small group as a facilitator of processes of self-knowledge.

To formulate critical judgments regarding the applications of psychodrama in its various contexts.

To know the applications in the clinical, educational and organizational context of Psychodrama.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Psychodrama in the field of psychotherapies

- Historical background: J.L. Moreno and the birth of psychodrama

- The Sociometry

- The psychoanalytic psychodrama

- The importance of different contexts in psychodrama

- The fundamental instruments

- Phases of the psychodramatic session

- Psychodramatic techniques

- The dynamics of a psychodramatic session

- Theoretical concepts used in psychodrama

- Psychodrama and psychopathology

- Psychodrama and group phenomenon

- Applications of psychodrama.

Head Lecturer(s)

Margarida Maria Batista Mendes Pedroso Lima

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Moreno , J. L. (1953). Who shall survive? Beacon, NY: Beacon House.

Moreno, J. L. (2010). The Theatre of Spontaneity. (Z. Figusch, Ed.). North-West Psychodrama Association.

Dias, C. (1993). Palcos do Imaginário. Lisboa: Ed. Fenda.

López-Barberá, E. e Población-Knappe, P. (1997). La escultura y otras técnicas psicodramáticas en psicoterapia. Barcelona: Ed. Paidós.

Marra, M.M. & Fleury, H.J. (2008). Grupos. Intervenções socioeducativas e método sociopsicodramático. São Paulo: Agora.

Gonzalez, A.-J. (2012). Das relações entre espontaneidade, saúde e doença. Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama. 20, 39–51.

Kim, K. W. (2003). The effects of being the protagonist in psychodrama. Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry. 55, 115–127.

Azoulay, B., and Orkibi, H. (2018). Helpful and Hindering Factors in Psychodrama Field Training: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of Student Development. Frontiers in Psychology. 9: 196. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00196.