Archives for Psychodrama

Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama volume 29, número 3, 2021

Psychodrama confirms political mission of diversity, equity and inclusion In 2020, humanity was challenged by the highly transmissible coronavirus respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Social distancing has also accentuated psychosocial difficulties. Another recent challenge was the awareness and mobilization triggered by the serious consequences of structural racism that led to the murder of George Floyd in the United States. Issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have been gaining increasing visibility and strengthened an important global movement to transform the course of history and society. Due to its responsibility for scientific dissemination, in
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Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama volume 29, número 1, 2021

The second century of psychodrama The birth of psychodrama dates to the first day of April, in 1921, when Jacob Levy Moreno directed the first public psychodrama to replace the current government: he invited someone from the audience to sit on the armchair on the stage of the Komoedien Haus, a dramatic theater in Vienna, Austria, symbolizing the throne of a king (Guimarães, 2020). It turns 100 years old, a centenary for implementing a new methodology for working with groups and people, initially in the United States, and then disseminated around the world. Getting to the end of this century,
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The concept of the co-unconscious in Moreno’s Psychodrama

Fleury, H. J., & Knobel, A. M. (2011). The concept of the co-unconscious in Moreno’s Psychodrama. In E. Hopper, & H. Weinberg (Orgs.). The social unconscious in persons, groups and societies (Vol. 1: Mainly Theory, pp. 23-24). Londres, UK: Karnac Books. This text, written in co-authorship with Anna Maria Knobel, addresses what characterizes Moreno’s co-conscious and co-unconscious states. It presents Moreno’ few texts about the concept of the co-unconscious and discusses how it is used in Psychodrama, based on contributions of some contemporary psychodramatists. Download PDF
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