A balcony: Short stories and psychodrama

Abstract

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.