Sambadrama: The Arena of Brazilian Psychodrama

287 Pages·2005·1.34 MB·English

by  Zoltan Figusch

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Sambadrama
The Arena of Brazilian Psychodrama
Edited and translated by Zoltán Figusch
Forewords by Adam Blatner and José Fonseca
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Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data
Sambadrama:thearenaofBrazilianpsychodrama/editedandtranslatedbyZoltánFigusch;
forewords by Adam Blatner and José Fonseca.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN-13: 978-1-84310-363-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-84310-363-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Psychodrama--Brazil. I. Figusch, Zoltán, 1974-
RC489.P7S26 2005
616.89'1523--dc22
2005018962
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ISBN-13: 978 184310 363 9
ISBN-10: 184310 363 X
ISBN pdfeBook: 1 84642 460 7
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
To Jussara,
for bringing me to Brazil

Contents
FOREWORD BY ADAM BLATNER 9
FOREWORD BY JOSÉ FONSECA 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 11
INTRODUCTION 13
Part 1 The history and identity of Brazilian psychodrama 15
1 The arrival of psychodrama in Brazil: Its early development 17
in the 1960s
Ronaldo Pamplona Da Costa
2 The development of psychodrama theory in Brazil 35
Sergio Perazzo
3 The roles of the colonized and the colonizer: In search of the 48
identity of Brazilian psychodrama
José Fonseca
4 The role of the colonizer and the colonized: In search of the 60
identity of Brazilian psychodrama
Geraldo Massaro
Part 2 Theoretical innovations in Brazilian psychodrama 69
5 The ‘nucleus of the I’ theory of Jaime Rojas-Bermudez 71
Zoltán Figusch
6 The clusters theory 90
Dalmiro M. Bustos
7 Digression around certain aspects of role theory 122
Sergio Perazzo
8 The protagonist and the protagonic theme 130
Luís Falivene R. Alves
9 The theatre of spontaneity and psychodrama psychotherapy 141
Moysés Aguiar
Part 3 Innovative techniques in Brazilian psychodrama 157
10 Psychogram: The use of drawings in psychodrama
psychotherapy 159
Luis Altenfelder
11 Genodrama: Psychodramatic work with genograms in couple
therapy 175
Maria Amalia Faller Vitale
12 Dramatic multiplication 190
Pedro Mascarenhas
13 I hate you…please don’t leave me!: The borderline client and
psychodrama 203
Rosa Cukierand Sonia Marmelsztejn
14 Sociometry: A new way to calculate the indices of the perceptive
test 227
Antonio Ferrara
15 Video-psychodrama and tele-psychodrama: The research of a
Morenian dream 250
Ronaldo Pamplona da Costa
APPENDIX: DIRECTORY OF THE PSYCHODRAMA ORGANIZATIONS
AFFILIATED TO THE BRAZILIAN PSYCHODRAMA FEDERATION (FEBRAP) 268
REFERENCES 273
CONTRIBUTORS 278
SUBJECT INDEX 280
AUTHOR INDEX 285
Foreword
Psychodrama involves ideas and methods that have many applications in
therapyandsocialdevelopmentthroughouttheworld.Atpresent,Brazilhas
more psychodramatists than any other country. I’ve encouraged Zoltán
Figusch,theeditorofthisbook,tosharetheworkofhiscolleagues.Readers
willbenefitfromhisselectingabroadspectrumofviewsandhelpingusto
appreciatethediversity,originality,creativethinking,anddepthof experi-
ence of respected practitioners and teachers of psychodrama in Brazil.
Figusch’sprodigiouseffortintranslatingtheirwritingsintoEnglishisacon-
tribution to our field, and I hope it will inspire others in the international
psychodrama community to consider doing the same. It is with gratitude
that I welcome this book to the body of literature in psychodrama,
sociometry and group psychotherapy.
Adam BlatnerM.D., T.E.P., certified trainer in psychodrama, fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association, certified psychiatrist, and author of Acting-In
andFoundations of Psychodrama.
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