Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama (RBP) was created in 1993 as an official publication vehicle of the Federação Brasileira de Psicodrama (Febrap). In order to speed up the disclosure of its content, in 2022, RBP adopted continuous publication.
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Sociodrama of the Brazilian People: Reflections on Socionomy and digital subjectivity
This study presents reflections on a public sociodrama carried out online during the period of social isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic, with spontaneous participation of people from different parts of Brazil. The data analyzed were collected through the participants’ statements in the roles of the characters that appeared in the scenic montage, ensuring group anonymity. Reflections on the experience point to the sociatric method as a way of producing subjectivities and awareness about their implications in the current scenario of virtual relationships mediated by information technologies and artificial intelligence. The therapeutic potential of Sociodrama is concluded by revealing the risks arising from the replacement of auxiliary egos (corporeality, affections) by auxiliary objects (technology, artificial intelligence).
Copyright (c) 2025 Tatiana Torres de Vasconcelos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Disputed matrices: creativity, performativity and psychodrama
From the role theory of J. L. Moreno and the concept of performance (of gender) by J. Butler, this work addresses the problem of “gender roles” within the framework of the heterosexual social matrix as space-time of corpopolitical production of binary sexes-genders that are expressed as a series of expected behaviors related to the sex assigned at the moment of birth. The development plants conversations between both theoretical bodies to elaborate a critical review of the effects of the psychodramatic device while considering the circulation of roles associated with gender.
Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Agostina Silvestri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Parenting of children and adolescents in institutional care: A psychodramatic path in the Amazon
This study analyzed how group psychodrama helps in the construction of the role of children and adolescents in institutional support. A qualitative, phenomenological and psychodramatic approach was used, with action research involving eight family members in a municipality in the state of Amazonas. Psychodrama was applied as a form of group intervention and understanding, promoting a spontaneous and creative experience of bonds. The results highlight that institutional support, although challenging, was perceived by families as an opportunity to reorganize parents and strengthen bonds, enabling the children to return home in more favorable conditions. The conclusion is that group psychodrama is a powerful and effective tool for working with families in institutional care, promoting significant changes.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sandriele Brenda Batista Romão, Gabriela Pereira Vidal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Sociodrama in trans visibility: Stimulating identity protagonism
This paper puts forward a socionomic, critical, and qualitative research, using action methods to collect and analyze data from a psychodramatic intervention, aimed at the local community and focused on the identity visibility of LGBTQ+ people. Sociodrama aimed to promote the recognition of trans identities, free from the constraints of the binary gender ideologies. The work seeks to contribute to the understanding of how psychodrama can address transphobia, racism, and LGBTphobia, as well as strengthen identities within group structures, as participants recognize and affirm their social and historical identity matrix marked by violence and liberation processes.
Copyright (c) 2025 Pettra Roque Araújo da Silva, Laura de Souza Zingra Vomero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
From roots to first time: who is afraid of Psychodrama?
This article addresses the evolution of human understanding of moderation and transcendence from ancient Greece to contemporary therapeutic methods, emphasizing Moreno (2006), who proposed a way to surpass personal limitations without revering deities or authorities, recognizing the intrinsic potential of each individual. It was a research-intervention approach, involving 210 students with no prior contact with Psychodrama, whose participation was synthesized into 610 questions and analyzed based on Bardin’s (2016) content analysis. The results indicate the effectiveness of Psychodrama when the depth of its existential phenomenological approach is understood as the main pillar for the subsequent comprehension of techniques and instruments.
Copyright (c) 2025 Melissa Oliver Vidal, Mara Solange da Silva Amaral https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Psychodramatic supervision: a critical perspective on a (psycho)therapeutic, political and (socio)educational clinical practice
This paper presents reflections on the importance of reading emerging reality from an expanded clinical perspective, developed throughout the process of supervising final projects in psychodrama. By a qualitative narrative methodological approach, two reports of experiences of supervision are presented, conducted in virtual and in-person formats, which illustrate the relevance of contextual analysis and the flexibility of training practices for psychodramatic actions that meet social needs. It was concluded that the supervision process is configured as a journey that articulates theory, practice, and subjectivity, reaffirming the psychodramatist’s role as an ethical subject, committed to reality and to a (psycho)therapeutic, political and socio-educational clinic.
Copyright (c) 2025 Acileide Cristiane Fernandes Coelho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Online psychodrama: expansion and new possibilities as consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic imposed intense changes in the world dynamics, psychodrama included, resulting in an intense necessity of creativity and spontaneity for social maintenance. This article aimed to analyze the social isolation effects on expansion of online psychodrama, highlighting the challenges and opportunities arising from this scenario, emphasizing on the expansion of the access to psychodrama. As methodology, literature review was used, and articles published between the years 2020 and 2025 were analyzed. As a result, it was perceived the clear necessity of a socio-historical-geographical perspective of an inclusive and authentic psychodramatic psychology maintenance, which evolves along with socioeconomic frequent transformations.
Copyright (c) 2025 Rafaella Barros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A Journey through the Generations to Clear a Painful Legacy through Psychodrama
The application of psychodrama in transgenerational trauma therapy has some peculiarities. In this paper, a complete psychodrama session is presented with a case containing examples of Invisible family loyalties, Unfinished grieving, Accountability across generations, and the Replacement child. The protagonist in the presented case is a 37-year-old woman who lost her brother when he was 21 years old; her family history is full of men who died very young, and she experiences constant unreasonable feelings of loss, as well as fear of losing her sons, although she does not believe in curses.
Copyright (c) 2025 Galabina Tarashoeva, Cristina Schmidt, Petra Marinova-Djambazova https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Changes in social roles in palliative care from the perspective of psychodrama
This study sought to understand how changes in social roles occur in people undergoing palliative care, in addition to bringing new forms of knowledge and practices through psychodrama and palliative care. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in person throughout the research process. This study emphasizes humanization. In this sense, it did not seek to simply present data, but also to tell a little about life stories. It was concluded that changes in roles occurred throughout the lives of these people and not suddenly, when they discovered their illnesses. These changes continue to occur at every moment, as well as the understanding and acceptance of the finitude of life, throughout the construction of the being, not only through the illness.
Copyright (c) 2025 Janaina Bethmann, Luane Aparecida de Lima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Bipersonal psychodrama and female autism: self-recognition after late diagnosis
This study aimed to analyze the recognition of the self in a woman diagnosed late with ASD through bipersonal psychodrama. This is a qualitative case study with a 39-year-old woman, using psychodrama therapy sessions. The analysis was conducted based on Morenian theory. The results are divided into three phases: Double, Mirror and Role Inversion, each contributing to the strengthening of the therapeutic bond, the rupture with cultural constraints and the development of more authentic narratives about the patient's identity. The research concluded that bipersonal psychodrama is effective in helping women diagnosed late with ASD, facilitating the recognition of the self and the resignification of their experiences.
Copyright (c) 2025 Bruna Maiara Giraldi, Gabriela Pereira Vidal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Neoliberal disobedience: a tale of failure
This article is configured as a qualitative study on the supervision of monographs in psychodrama, addressing themes such as failure, neoliberal disobedience, guilt, care, and racial and power relations. It highlights the importance of recognizing situated knowledges as a condition for a meaningful and empowering encounter between supervisor and supervisee. Furthermore, it discusses the role of affirmative action and retention policies in training settings, as well as group care as a strategy for promoting students’ mental health. The report also reflects on the development of initiatives to confront racism, LGBTphobia, and abusive relationships involving students, supervisors, and professors.
Copyright (c) 2025 Laura de Souza Zingra Vomero, Maria Célia Malaquias https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Re-signifying stories in augmented reality through the therapist-patient bond
It is not possible to learn without interest, it is not possible to be interested on something without meaning, and there is no meaning without a relationship. This article presents an ethnobiographical study and observes that the search for spontaneity can be based on the therapist-patient bond and supplementary reality. It presents a description of a psychotherapy session and discusses the psychotherapist’s perception of her bonding process based on supplementary reality and her role-taking process as a psychodramatist. From a psychodramatic perspective, the search for meaning can be understood as the result of establishing bonds through the performance of roles in relationships experienced in a spontaneous and creative way.
Copyright (c) 2025 Debora Gramkow, Ana Luísa Silva Iunes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The arcane of psychotherapy: the telic field of healing
This article aimed to deepen the concept of the telic healing field (CTC), an integrative relational space that emerges between therapist and client, grounded in emotional resonance and neuroaffective co-regulation. The term arcane, derived from Latin arcanus, refers to the deep mysteries of this transformative therapeutic space. The study is based on 13 clinical cases of trauma reprocessing. Patient evolution, relational dynamics within the therapeutic field, and clinical outcome indicators were analyzed. The results demonstrated that CTC fosters emotional safety, facilitating neural and emotional reprocessing. The intersection between internal psychodrama and neuroscience-based therapies reinforces CTC’s clinical applicability, highlighting its potential as an integrative tool for trauma management.
Copyright (c) 2025 Georges Salim Khouri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This series of publications aims to explore and disseminate experiences, unique approaches, and reflections on anti-racist practices in group interventions, highlighting the transformative potential of psychodrama and related methodologies in the fight against racism.
Copyright (c) 2025 Oriana Holsbach Hadler, Aline Pompeu Silveira, Daniel Russell Oliveira, Gabriela Pereira Vidal, Érico Douglas Vieira, Marília Meneghetti Bruhn, Melissa Oliver Vidal, David Ordaz Bulos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Escuta preta: Support groups as a strategy for aquilombamento
This article presents a reflection on the Escuta Preta extension project, developed over three years at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The objective of the initiative is to create a space for listening and support for Black students, through group techniques, reflective dynamics, and thematic approaches aligned with the specific demands of this population. The project has reached its sixth edition, establishing itself as a relevant institutional resource. Among the most significant results are the strengthening of bonds between participants, the promotion of a sense of belonging, and the creation of a more welcoming environment within a predominantly white institution.
Copyright (c) 2025 Lia Vainer Schucman, Elle de Souza Medeiros, Joice Roberta Modesto, Maria Alice Corrêa Breigeron, Pedro Henrique de Melo e Silva, Viviane Alves de Paula https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Silences That Scream: Immobilization in the Face of Racism in the Classroom
This study presents a sociodramatic intervention with Psychology students at a university in Rio de Janeiro, aimed at reflecting on and transforming racist behaviors. Forty-five students participated, fifteen of whom were Black and thirty White. The methodology adopted was sociodrama, with systematic observation and qualitative analysis of the interactions. The experience revealed the challenges participants face in addressing racism, while also creating space to foster critical awareness and the desire to act against these inequalities. The activity exposed students to the enactment of scenes depicting structural racism, evoking emotions and feelings of helplessness. The experience highlighted the difficulty future professionals have in acting against racism, underscoring the urgency of a critical and anti-racist education. It is concluded that racism is a power structure, sustained by inequality and socially reproduced, requiring continuous deconstruction, particularly in the context of mental health.
Copyright (c) 2025 Débora Alessandra de Souza, Eloisa Helena Gomes Diniz, Daniel Russell Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Psychodramatic Kizomba: Experiences of quilombola
Kizomba Psicodramática is a virtual scientific meeting held since 2022 by the Psychodrama and Racial Relations Study Group. This experience report presents reflections on the personal and professional experiences of the participants, both individually and as a group. We also reflect on how Kizomba fostered moments of conceptual and technical discussion, from the perspective of Socionomy and Quilombismo, as well as other philosophical and theoretical frameworks. Finally, we conclude that Kizomba contributes to anti-racist professional practice, especially in the areas of health and education, as well as to the development of transformative actions and projects.
Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Celia Malaquias https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Sociodrama and crossings: African diaspora and affections
The Black Experimental Theater emerged in 1944 as an expression of resistance to racism. Through Group Therapy, worked in the theater, the sociologist Alberto Guerreiro Ramos carried out the first sociodramatic studies in Brazil, demonstrating the power of social transformation of the morenian method. The article describes the Sociodrama “Crossings: African Diaspora and Affections” carried out in two different circumstances with the aim of reflecting on the history of resistance and ancestral rescue of black people in Brazil. Aspects of brazilian racial dynamics were present in the scenes and reactions of the audience, protagonists and director. The fact that the proposal was experienced in different groups demonstrated intersectional aspects that were decisive in the singularity of each experience. This allowed us to confirm the potential for analysis and political resistance of the sociodramatic method.
Copyright (c) 2025 Giceli Carvalho Batista Formiga , Belém, Graziela Maria da Silva Gatto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Aquilombamento on stage: weaving psychodramatic possibilities in light of an ancestral technology
This article proposes a reflection on anti-racist practices in group processes in psychodrama, dialoguing with the concept of aquilombamento as a technology of care in collective mental health. It starts with the recognition of racism as an agent of psychological, relational and social illness, and the appreciation of therapeutic and socionomic strategies that strengthen bonds, build support networks and promote community cohesion. A qualitative, theoretical-experiential and essayistic approach was adopted, anchored in the narrative of a sociodrama conducted in 2024, articulating theory and practice. The proposal also reinforces psychodrama's ethical commitment to active listening and the deconstruction of colonial epistemologies, articulating anti-racist alliances between black and white people, presenting interventions that intertwine identities, affection and collective care.
Copyright (c) 2025 Daniela Aparecida Cardoso da Silva, Juliana dos Santos Soares https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Structural racism, ethnodrama and belonging in a public psychodrama experience
This article describes a public psychodrama experience based on the methodology of ethnodrama, aiming to foster active listening and collective reflection on the impacts of structural racism. The activity, entitled “Racist, me? – a meeting to go beyond structural silence”, demonstrated how psychodrama can reveal cultural conserves, expand racial literacy, and strengthen group bonds. Poetry, dramatized scenes, music, and emotional sharing triggered individual and collective catharses that fostered critical awareness, empathy, and ethical responsibility among participants. The experience revealed ethnodrama as a dialogical and transformative resource, particularly by recognizing the narratives of Black individuals as legitimate expressions of knowledge and resistance in the face of oppressive social structures.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sabrina Silva Sabino, Silvana Progetti Paschoal Sisti, Inara Souza da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Antiracist education as an emancipatory practice: An intervention-research with educators
This article presents a sociodramatic intervention-research conducted with educators from a Board of Education in the countryside of São Paulo, funded by Program of Scientific Initiation Scholarships (PIBIC), of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Over the course of three sessions, this qualitative study aimed to assess the educators’ understanding of Law 10.639/03, facilitate reflections on the topic, and collectively construct meanings and possibilities for action in the context of ethnic-racial relations. Sociodrama was employed as the guiding methodology due to its effectiveness in eliminating prejudice and stereotypes, as affirmed by Guerreiro Ramos. It became evident that the sociodramatic group interventions created a space for critical reflection on the colonial and racist legacy embedded in Brazilian education, while also enabling an awakening to the theme within the educational context.
Copyright (c) 2025 Stephany Matias de Oliveira Crisostono, Daniela de Figueiredo Ribeiro, Mariana Rocha Siqueira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Psychodrama as ancestral intelligence: Epistemology of the crossroads and the decolonization of clinical practice
This work connects psychodrama with the epistemology of the crossroads, understanding it as an expression of Ancestral Intelligence. Based on the clinical experience with Lueji (pseudonym), a young Black woman and Candomblé practitioner, the therapeutic setting becomes a space for welcoming and reconnecting with silenced knowledge systems. The expression of her cosmoperception required epistemological frameworks capable of resignifying the pain caused by structural and religious racism. Revisiting the work of Guerreiro Ramos and his role in the Black Experimental Theater repositions Brazilian psychodrama as a path back to ancestral roots. Thus, the group dimension becomes inseparable from the psychodramatic process, emphasizing that both illness and healing occur collectively, especially through what we refer to here as Ancestral Intelligence.
Copyright (c) 2025 Vivianne Caroline Santos Sobral, Marília Meneghetti Bruhn https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Socio-historical resonances of two online experiences in the Southeast and Northeast regions of Brazil
his article aims to analyze the resonances of two online experiences on racial literacy carried out in the Southeast and Northeast regions of Brazil through the Sociodramatic methodology. The participants’ narratives during the sharing were examined considering their regional and historical contexts. The results show how the racial issue is experienced differently in each region, influenced by the historical context, social trajectories, collective memories and narrative practices. The experiences promoted expressions of feelings, critical reflections on structural racism and regional inequalities. It is concluded that racial literacy, mediated by Psychodrama online or in person, contributes to the fight and confrontation of racism, opening space to bring racial literacy to diverse voices and their historical specificities in Brazil.
Copyright (c) 2025 Elenice Alves Gomes, Rosana Rebouças https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Transforming practices: Racial literacy in institutional foster care
This article discusses racial dynamics within the context of institutional care for adolescents in Brazil, shaped by a history of social inequality and racism. The research involved conducting racial literacy workshops with professionals in the field, aiming to enhance intervention practices. The outcomes of this group-based initiative revealed divergences in the understanding of racial literacy among practitioners, as well as institutional barriers to its effective implementation. However, the content analysis conducted post-intervention identified positive results with greater understanding and initiative on the part of the professional. It is urgent to incorporate racial literacy as a guideline in public social assistance policies and in high-complexity care services, in order to promote anti-racist practices and establish protective spaces for Black adolescentes.
Copyright (c) 2025 Luana Luiza Galoni https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Corpographing “border-schools”: engaged ethnographies in intercultural peripheral schools in Santiago de Chile
Recent migrations transformed Chile. Migrant corporealities questioned the racialized foundations of local subjectivity. Integration/inclusion discourses increased tensions with local populations marked by historical class and gender-based oppression and exclusion. Faced with new hateful subjectivities, between 2013 and 2017 I accompanied intercultural educational processes in a peripheral area of Santiago de Chile as ethnographer and educator-researcher. Through exercises in methodological reflexivity as a social program tutor, with the (non)school group “The Experimenters” and as co-teacher in interculturality, I portray intersectional violence in childhood and youth, along with contradictions in school communities absorbed by the hyperreality of territorial violence.
Copyright (c) 2025 Patricio Azócar Donoso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This article reports on a Bibliodrama experience carried out within the context of Profint (Integrated Professionals), a member organization of FEBRAP (Brazilian Federation of Psychodrama) in Sergipe, which integrated literature, music, and dramatization, engaging the group in reflections on silencing and ethno-racial oppression. The theoretical framework adopted was Socionomy, specifically Sociatry and the psychodramatic method. The intervention aimed to foster reflection and recognition of silenced pain, transforming it into creative and collective action. The experience demonstrated that Bibliodrama is an effective tool in the process of Racial Literacy, encouraging the listening and expression of feelings and promoting active accountability in the face of racism.
Copyright (c) 2025 Laruse Andrade Souza, Ivna Ariane Santos Vieira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Racial warm-up on stage: Systematization of an antiracist device
This work presents a group intervention carried out with fourteen participants at a mental health event in Rio de Janeiro, adopting a qualitative research approach using methods such as sociodrama, Theatre of the Oppressed, and the Black Experimental Theatre (TEN). The experience followed the stages of sociodrama, aiming to promote antiracist attitudes through dramatic action. To achieve this purpose, classical psychodrama techniques were employed, along with forum theatre and group therapy. During the dramatizations, participants assumed different roles, allowing the analysis of oppressive dynamics. The intervention contributed to the recognition of racist behaviors and the development of antiracist stances. The study concludes that the fight against racism requires accountability and mobilization from everyone.
Copyright (c) 2025 Daniel Russell Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
“ConViver”: anti-racist practices in family protective coexistence groups within the Unified Social Assistance System
Developing anti-racist practices in groups within the Unified Social Assistance System can contribute to preventing relational vulnerabilities, expanding protective coexistence, and strengthening family and community bonds. This article presents the results of group interventions conducted by the “ConViver” group, focusing on the prevention of discrimination and prejudice and the promotion of protective coexistence in SUAS units in the Federal District. The field research employed the intervention-research method and sociodrama, comprising three online groups and one in-person group, totaling 77 participants. Thematic analyses highlight the importance of coexistence technologies in ensuring the sensitive listening of silenced stories, especially those of children, youth, and Black women affected by ongoing vulnerabilities. The group sessions revealed pathways toward safe coexistence and networks of affection, resistance, and belonging.
What nonsense is this? Psychodrama and Clowning as devices to report prejudice
This article presents an in-person experience carried out at the XIV Ibero-American Congress of Psychodrama (Florianópolis/2023), which aimed to raise awareness among the group about prejudices, understood as a historically constructed social symptom. By combining sociodrama with clowning, we co-constructed a relaxed yet profound collective space that would foster the building of bonds to promote collective reflections and symbolic reparation. The final goal was to transpose reflections from the group context to the social one, sowing possibilities for social transformation. Games, headline readings, and role-plays were held to engage participants, while new perspectives on exposed and hidden prejudices emerged from the process of reflection and dramatization, covering themes such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and religious intolerance. What prejudices dwell within us? And where, after all, do we place our noses to promote effective changes,both internal and external?
Copyright (c) 2025 Kim Ouakil Boscolo, Daniel Russell Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Affirmative actions in Brazilian psychodrama: Towards an anti-racist and inclusive praxis
This article aims to discuss the importance of implementing affirmative actions in psychodrama training and events in Brazil and its challenges, based on sharing the experience of offering the “Bolsa da Diversidade ABP”, from the Associação Brasiliense de Psicodrama e Sociodrama (ABP), implemented in 2024. We understand that despite the advances in the discussion of racial issues and diversity, we need to promote mechanisms that facilitate the entry of marginalized groups into training and events, still mostly formed by white cisgender people. We believe that offering specific policies for these minorities contributes to rectifying historical disparities, fostering inclusion and confronting discrimination in our society.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Luísa Silva Iunes, Mariana Leão Côrtes Berquó https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Sociodrama as an anti-racist tool in the training of health professionals
Racism is sustained by a system of privileges that generates subjective effects at both an individual and collective level, and is closely related to whiteness. This article, based on a qualitative research-intervention carried out with 215 Psychology, Nursing and Medicine students at a university in the interior of São Paulo, reflects on the contribution of sociodrama as an interventional tool in anti-racist practices in health training. The results show that sociodrama is a powerful strategy for sensitizing students, enhancing anti-racist professional practices in health care and contributing to social transformation.
Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Eduarda Silva Valentim https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Hair Transition in the process of black identification and identity: Memories evoked in the Psychodramatic scene
The objective of this article is to present a reflection on “hair politics” in the process of black identification and identity, given that, in a racist culture, black children are stigmatized for having curly and frizzy hair and will have to identify themselves, through hair straightening, early on with straight hair that will deprive them of their black identity. As a methodology for reflection, a case study will be presented of a black woman, protagonist, participant of a Psychodramatic group psychotherapy, who in the sharing stage of the session, described her process of identity transformation, stemming from her hair transition. We concluded that hair transition can function as an important ritual of identity (re)construction, promoting healing, agency, and resistance in the face of structural racism.
Copyright (c) 2025 Fatima Cristina Costa Fontes, Claudia Nascimento da Costa Ramos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The group reconstruction of black identity: an experience report
This study presents an experience report with a thematic group that focused on questioning the constructions of racial identities through an anti-racist perspective. The group activities targeted black and brown women in situations of social vulnerability living in a occupation, in the city of Aracaju, Brazil. This work uses the works of Jacob Levy Moreno and Alberto Guerreiro Ramos as reference tools for decolonizing identity construction. Finally, the contributions of Psychodrama and Experimental Black Theater (TEN) in group psychotherapy and anti-racist practices with community impacts are highlighted.
Copyright (c) 2025 Emilly de Andrade Oliveira, Marília Meneghetti Bruhn https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Reflections on bonds through dramatization in group mentoring for university students
The aims were to describe the use of dramatization as a tool in a group mentoring of university students, involving a total of 12 students aged between 18 and 25, and reflect on it. The theme types of bonds was explored through dramatization. During the sharing phase, reflections emerged about the challenges in establishing and maintaining bonds. The observed elements aligned with the principles of university mentoring and the role-play technique as strategies in the educational context, particularly regarding emotional support and psychosocial aspects, through reflection on interpersonal bonds.
Copyright (c) 2025 Raquel Garcia de Lima Sória https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
A balcony: Short stories and psychodrama
The objective of this paper was to conduct a case study of the intervention “Em Contos na Varanda: um encontro de mulheres” that takes place on the balcony of a Center for Psychosocial Attention to Children and Youth in Salvador, Bahia. Starting from the sociatry and internal psychodrama, the reflection is conducted inspired by the theoretical-methodological discussions produced by the experience in the Study Group Ethnic Racial Relations and Psychodrama, created and coordinated by Maria Célia Malaquias. The stories written by Conceição Evaristo when approaching the experiences of women allow the construction of a space for speech and reception of sorrows sometimes never verbalized. The conclusion is that it is important to offer an intervention that favors the construction of spaces in which it is possible to get in touch with ancestral, intimate and collective pains.
Copyright (c) 2025 Luiza de Oliveira, Sandra Inés dos Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Sociodrama as a tool for working with adolescents
The article explores the use of sociodrama with adolescent groups in a suburban school in Fortaleza (CE), Brazil. Twelve students (ages 15-17) participated in six weekly meetings, and aesthetic and ludic resources (music, cordel, clay) were used to promote safety, dialogue, and protagonism. Sociodrama maximized support and reciprocity among participants. Based on psychodrama theory, the discussion highlights the method’s effectiveness in promoting school health and strengthening the student-school-community relationship
Copyright (c) 2025 Fellipe Sousa da Silva, Ana Beatriz Dias de Freitas Rolim, Rafael Barros de Oliveira, Ana Rosa Quidute https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Gender violence and psychodrama: integrative review of the Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama
This study conducted an integrative review on violence against women and psychodrama, based on publications of the Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama (2010–2024), to investigate how psychodrama has aided in research and contributed to the understanding and interventions related to this topic. Six articles were selected using five descriptors. Only three of them were based on gender theory. The absence of gender theory and intersectionality can lead to limited or individualizing interpretations, ignoring the cultural and structural dynamics. Sociodrama emerges as a powerful method of group intervention. This review highlights the scarcity of studies and the need to expand research that considers the sociocultural and structural dimensions of violence against women in Brazil.
Copyright (c) 2025 Mariana Leão Côrtes Berquó https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Psychodrama as a facilitator for exploring the Shadow: a Literature review
This work aims to describe the landscape of academic and scientific productions on the interface between Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology and Jacob Levy Moreno’s Psychodrama, highlighting the latter as a facilitating tool for exploring the Shadow. The research, of a descriptive and exploratory nature, is based on a narrative literature review, utilizing secondary data obtained from Google Scholar, Pepsic, and Scielo, including articles, theses, dissertations, and monographs from the last 15 years. The analysis revealed a difficulty in finding articles that directly connect the approaches of Jung and Moreno. In summary, recognizing the integration between these fields is relevant for understanding the management of the Shadow and for improving therapeutic practices based on Jungian theory, enriching personal development and expanding psychological support.
Copyright (c) 2025 Marina Beatriz Vieira Ribeiro, Dalízia Amaral Cruz, Edson Júnior Silva da Cruz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Brazilian Psychodrama and the Anti-Racist Fight: The Legacy of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos