Children’s psychodrama: creating comic stories as an intermediate and intra-intermediate object

Abstract

The current paper aimed to comprehend the cooperative comic stories’ creation as an intermediary and an intra-intermediary object, becoming a potential practice to be used during psychodramatic psychotherapy with children. An experience report on case G and a study of art were carried out, making it possible to recognize comic books as intermediate and intra-intermediate objects according to the objective of their use in the sessions, allowing the use of psychodramatic techniques, reducing the tense field and recovering patient’s creativity-spontaneity. It was possible to conclude that the use of comic books provides a greater bond between therapist and child, in addition to providing means for the patient to express themselves without fear, opening space for psychodramatic play, for co-creation and for finding new responses to situations experienced.