PSYCHODRAMA AND THEOLOGY: DIALOGUE IN EPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This study focusses on the epistemological questions in texts of the Psychodrama where the influence of Theology and religion is present, using the critical interpretative synthesis for a literature revision. It is observed that the psychodramatic methodology is supported on an epistemological perspective from an ethical view, both in the religious phase, using a more metaphorical, poetical or mystical language, and in the scientific phase, where a more calculated comprehension and exactness of concepts are sought. Although it is possible to find vestiges of attempts to legitimate the psychodramatic proposals through a positivist scientific paradigm, it is clear that, since its religious and theological origin, the work of Moreno confronts this perspective, approximating to phenomenology and a nontotalitarian metaphysics.