New issue of the Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie

Dear colleagues,

I want to let you know that the new issue of the "Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie" has been published. This issue editied by Ulrike Fangauf and Christian Stadler is titled "Young Psychodramatists". Below you will find English abstracts of the articles.

The "Zeitschrit für Psychodrama und Soziometrie"

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Michael Schacht

Abstracts of ZPS 1/2006

Chus Ancochea Serraima

Tiene tela / Betuchte Menschen - Cloth as medium of communication in psychodrama therapy

In our daily life cloth is omnipresent and it is very suitable to be used in the psychotherapeutic practise. The first part of the article introduces an overview on the material cloth, its properties and daily use from a psychodramatical point of view. In the second part, based on the theory of intermediar and intramediar objects by J. Rojas Bermúdez, the author shows the work with cloth in the psychotherapeutic practise illustrated by practical examples.

Las telas, omnipresentes en nuestra vida diaria, son sumamente adecuadas para su utilización en la consulta psicoterapéutica. En la primera parte de este artículo la autora presenta una vista general sobre el material tela, sus características y su utilización en la vida cotidiana desde el punto de vista psicodramático. La segunda parte está dedicada al trabajo con telas en el consultorio psicodramatista basándose en la teoría de los objetos intermediarios e intraintermediarios de J. Rojas Bermúdez y con ejemplos.

Susanne Marx

Moreno’s role theory as a "map" in psychodramatic one-to-one coaching

Moreno’s role concept is a useful landmark while "travelling" with a coachee, providing orientation and guidance for the coach. After an introduction of basic ideas concerning coaching and Moreno’s role theory this article primarily describes a coache’s role cluster, followed by a description of the usefulness of role analysis of a client’s roles in the coaching phases.

Jürgen Wölfl

Psychodramatic therapy process as experienced by clients

The results of a qualitative study of the therapeutic process in psychodrama in the experience of clients are presented. The results are based on qualitative interviews with clients after they finished their psychodrama-therapy. A theory was developed, which is introduced in a diagram. The categories

Birgit Szczyrba

„bringing the interior outside" and the „process of evaluating and deciding" are discussed and thoughts about the therapeutic process are presented.

„Academic teaching performs a change of perspectives from teaching to learning and, therewith, effects a further move to professionalization, also named the 'Shift from Teaching to Learning’. In a change of perspectives, professors/lecturers have to consider their own teaching and the knowledge to be imparted from the perspectives of the students.

For academic staff trainings, this contribution delineates in the psychodramatic excersize called 'envisaging the target group' how to apply inner role taking in planning and preparing one's teaching.

Peter Behrendt

Effect and effective factors of psychodramatic coaching

The present study investigates the process of success development in one-to-one-coaching and examines how the method of psychodrama can contribute to this process. First the four change factors are presented. They represent the four success strategies in a general psychological coaching approach that can be chosen by the coach.

Second 35 one-to-one-coaching sessions are evaluated by a video-based rating-system and questionnaires that were filled in by all coaches, clients and employees of the clients. In these analyses the four change factors were shown to be critical for short- and medium-term success. In an experimentally designed assessment the psychodramatic coachings had a considerably better result than the comparative coaching. This outcome could be explained by the focus on resources and growth and the high competence of the psychodramatic coaches to set up an appreciative coaching relationship. The analyses demonstrate furthermore that the well-aimed and specific use of psychodrama methods is more fruitful than its time-extensive use as the main intervention method.

Annette Stöber

Gender perspective in psychodramatic supervision

The author affords an insight into the gender-perspective in the supervision. The gender-perspective serves in the following article as a foil to look at the role-theory, the role of the supervisor and at examples. The view on the role-theory of Moreno in a gender way is limited on two aspects: the role-development and the cultural atom. Finally the author introduces her extension of the interpretation- and working foils (according to F. Buer) within the meaning of the gender-perspective. She eludicates her practical work with examples.

Thomas Richter

"More of what works!" Snapshots of a resource oriented psychodramatic therapy with an addicted woman

By two examples for practical therapeutic work in a hospital for mothers with addiction the author shows the advantages of a resource-oriented psychodrama-work, which enables the clients towards spontaneous and flexible enactment. The focus is on the forces and abilities of the clients, which strengthen motivation and trust in a successful outcome of the therapy. The author holds a pleading for a vivid, spontaneous and flexible attitude of the psychodramatist as a suitable reaction on the inhibition of action, which is often found with addicted people.

Lisa Tomaschek-Habrina

Moreno a modern mystic?

Moreno has transferred the idea of revelation, which is formulated as divine effect in action in the Kabala, the Godhead in all living to the twentieth century. With his concept of the I-God he has presented an immanent Godhead. He showed us in the role-reversal with God that everyone can be creative in his own little world. Similar views we can find in the mystic traditions. These views are examined here in connection with Moreno.

The Shift from Teaching to Learning" – Psychodramatic perspectives on academinc teaching– an experimental evaluation