SAMBADRAMA: THE ARENA OF BRAZILIAN PSYCHODRAMA; ED. BY ZOLTAN FIGUSCH

There are more active practitioners and teachers of psychodrama in Brazil than anywhere else in the world, with their own strong sense of community, history and tradition. In selecting and translating their 'best work' (Adam Blatner), Zoltan Figusch offers international readers an extensive overview of the work being done using this psychotherapeutic method, which enables participants to examine relationships, emotions, fears and conflicts through spontaneous role-play and improvisations with other 'actors' and with the practitioner. Divided into the three parts, the book sets the context for Brazilian psychodrama, explores the creative and innovative work that is being done, and presents observations and examples of the full range of psychodramatic techniques and practical applications. It covers the range of exciting and pioneering work being carried out in Brazil, and will serve as a building block for the exchange and communication of psychodramatic ideas and techniques cross-culturally. The first comprehensive volume of its kind on this subject, "Sambadrama" will be an invaluable resource and of immense interest for psychodrama practitioners around the world, as well as anyone with an interest in psychotherapy, psychology and sociology. There are more active practitioners and teachers of psychodrama in Brazil than anywhere else in the world, with their own strong sense of community, history and tradition. In selecting and translating their'best work'(Adam Blatner), Zoltán Figusch offers international readers an extensive overview of the work being done using this psychotherapeutic method, which enables participants to examine relationships, emotions, fears and conflicts through spontaneous role-play and improvisations with other'actors'and with the practitioner. Divided into the three parts, the book sets the context for Brazilian psychodrama, explores the creative and innovative work that is being done, and presents observations and examples of the full range of psychodramatic techniques and practical applications.It covers the range of exciting and pioneering work being carried out in Brazil, and will serve as a building block for the exchange and communication of psychodramatic ideas and techniques cross-culturally. The first comprehensive volume of its kind on this subject, Sambadrama will be an invaluable resource and of immense interest for psychodrama practitioners around the world, as well as anyone with an interest in psychotherapy, psychology and sociology. The arrival of psychodrama to Brazil: its early development inthe sixties / Ronaldo Pamplona Da Costa The development of the psychodrama theory in Brazil / Sergio Perazzo The roles of the colonized and the colonizer: in search of the identity of Brazilian psychodrama / José Fonseca The role of the colonizer and the colonized: in search of the identity of Brazilian psychodrama / Geraldo Massaro The 'nucleus of the I' theory of Jaime Rojas-Bermudez / Zoltán Figusch The clusters theory / Dalmiro Bustos Digression around certain aspects of the role theory / Sergio Perazzo The protagonist and the protagonic theme / Luis Falivene Alves The theatre of spontaneity and psychodrama psychotherapy / Moysés Aguiar The psychogram: the use of drawings in psychodrama psychotherapy / Luis de Moraes Altenfelder Silva Genodrama: psychodramatic work with genograms in couple therapy / Maria Amalia Faller Vitale Dramatic multiplication / Pedro Mascarenhas I hate you. Please don't leave me!: the borderline client and psychodrama / Rosa Cukier, Sonja Marmelsztejn Sociometry: a new way to calculate the indexes of the perceptive test / Antonio Ferrara Video-psychodrama and tele-psychodrama: the research of a Morenian dream / Ronaldo Pamplona da Costa.