ABSTRACT:

Despite the creator of modern psychodrama being very clear about the inseparable conceptual relationship between psychodrama and sociodrama in the 1946 first volume of his Psychodrama, the practice of treating them in isolation is noticeably still dominant almost 80 years later.

What J. L. Moreno wrote in section VIII, dedicated to Sociodrama, leaves no doubt about it. “As soon as the individuals are treated as collective representatives of community roles and role relations and not as to their private roles and role relations, the psychodrama turns into a ‘socio-psychodrama’ or short, sociodrama”.

Unfortunately, even international congresses and conferences tend to handle this phenomenon as if these two poles were independent. This issue should also be discussed.

During this workshop, we will have the opportunity to practice how to move from the private roles of a specific psychodrama – suggested by the participants after an improvised warm-up – to a real sociodrama. What is expected is that, after the concrete experience, participants will be able to (a) understand the basic difference between “private”, individual roles and collective ones; and (b) how to “go through the tunnel” connecting psychodrama and sociodrama, allowing us to be treated as representatives of community roles.

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