El lugar del psicodrama en la Psicología en Colombia, Brasil y Argentina.

Abstract

Psychodrama is a direct psychotherapy technique, that is, the therapeutic process is carried out in the "here and now," with all the constitutive emotional elements of the pathological situation that are expressed through the characters and concurrent circumstances. (Rojas, 1997, p. 17). For the American psychiatrist and sociologist Jacob Levy Moreno, forerunner of psychodrama in 1921, it was initially conceived as a group technique or deep group psychotherapy (Moreno, JL, 1959a, p. 108), whose therapeutic potential was based on the idea of allow catharsis to no longer be secondary; that is to say, that this was no longer experienced by the viewer but by the actor. This was based on the fact that catharsis is a mental, corporal and spiritual purification from the most diverse passions projected on the characters in the play, where the punishment for the actions carried out by each character is observed. For psychodrama, this catharsis contributes to the therapeutics of the actors, since they themselves produce the drama and in turn free themselves from it; therefore, this becomes an active catharsis in which the actors begin to live their real lives on stage.