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Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Africa, 1994.

This study propagates a move away from the dominant practices of psychodrama with its emphasis on catharsis and insight as the main components of a therapeutic experience. It proposes a systemic orientation to psychodrama where protagonists may encounter the circularity of the systems in which they are embedded and through this process encounter new meaning. Case studies are presented which exemplify an evolutionary process of creating what the author refers to as "ecosystemic psychodrama". This ecosystemic psychodrama is based on second-order cybernetics and what is aimed for is that as a therapy it should present something of the balance between the aesthetic and pragmatic views of therapy that Keeney (1983a) describes as complementary. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Africa, 1994.

This study propagates a move away from the dominant practices of psychodrama with its emphasis on catharsis and insight as the main components of a therapeutic experience. It proposes a systemic orientation to psychodrama where protagonists may encounter the circularity of the systems in which they are embedded and through this process encounter new meaning. Case studies are presented which exemplify an evolutionary process of creating what the author refers to as "ecosystemic psychodrama". This ecosystemic psychodrama is based on second-order cybernetics and what is aimed for is that as a therapy it should present something of the balance between the aesthetic and pragmatic views of therapy that Keeney (1983a) describes as complementary. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

This research explored the role of extra-therapeutic variables contributing to recovery from chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Within the context of dramatherapy treatment, those variables were identified as three crucial concepts: 'Client, Post Traumatic' (C.PT), ‘Imaginary Existence Zone’ (IEZ) and 'Time Adjusted Encounters' (TAE). Together they created the notion of a Curative Zone (CZ). Establishing and understanding the significance of these new concepts helped the researcher to explain the PTSD recuperation phenomenon. The research was conducted within the qualitative–naturalistic paradigm, and based on real-life dramatherapeutic occurrences. The choice of an inductive case study approach and design was possible due to the fact that a single individual was willing to participate in this research as an active partner by contributing her reflections on the therapy, four years after its termination. Iris, the client and the collaborating respondent was a childless woman aged 43, who suffered from chronic PTSD for three years following stillbirth of her baby daughter and the repetitive failure of fertility treatments. The findings reveal a direct linkage between: the neurological system and its activation, and the cardinal role of the C.PT during TAE, working through prolonged engagements in the IEZ facilitated by dramatherapy. These processes gradually integrated and synthesized to create the CZ, a development which explains this instance of recovery from chronic PTSD. The conclusions are: the chronic PTSD recovery was a holistic body-mind cure phenomenon. It resulted from the interaction between the extra-therapeutic variables, combined with the curative characteristics of the dramatherapeutic nonverbal imaginative language and activities, which compounded a new synergetic constellation. The research findings contribute to the theory and practice of dramatherapy as a discipline; additionally, the model developed by this research can be potentially applied as an appropriate treatment of PTSD. These conclusions challenge valid psychotherapy knowledge regarding effective therapeutic factors that contribute to successful outcomes. However, in this case they verified credible, dependable and transferable attributes features this naturalistic research. Therefore, they make a contribution to knowledge in the dramatherapy field.

Cette recherche propose d'étudier le processus thérapeutique mis en jeu au psychodrame psychanalytique individuel en se centrant sur le déploiement et l'utilisation de l'espace transitionnel et de ses effets pour le sujet. En s'appuyant sur une réflexion critique autour de la problématique de l'évaluation des psychothérapies, cette thèse propose un protocole méthodologique ambitionnant la conciliation des critères de scientificités de ce domaine de recherche et le respect des spécificités inhérentes à un traitement analytique. À partir d'une réflexion autour des opérateurs thérapeutiques du psychodrame associée à la construction d'un outil clinique regroupant les indicateurs propres au déploiement et à l'utilisation d'un inter-jeu thérapeutique, cette recherche vise à témoigner des changements au sein du fonctionnement psychique des patients permis par ce dispositif. À l'aide d'un protocole processus-résultats centré sur des études de cas intensives, standardisées et agrégées, cette recherche tend à évaluer une pratique courante en psychiatrie et à proposer une réflexion métapsychologique sur le processus analytique, tant sur ses effets « objectivables », que ceux au niveau du (re)-déploiement des capacités transitionnelles et associatives du patient nécessaire afin d'intégrer et de s'approprier psychiquement ses expériences de vies et conflits psychiques. / This research aims to study the therapeutic processes involved in individual psychoanalytic psychodrama. It focuses on the deployment and use of transitional space and its effects on the subject. Based on a critical reasoning on the issue of psychotherapies' evaluation, this thesis proposes a methodological protocol aspiring to reconcile the specificities of analytic treatment and scientific criteria about this research area. Thus, this search will study the psychic functioning's change allowed by psychodramatic technique. To do this, we built a clinical tool bringing together specific's indicators to (re)-deployment and use of a therapeutic inter-play associated to an elaboration about psychodrama therapeutics operators. To assess this common practice in psychiatry, we use a process-results protocol based on standardized and aggregated intensive case studies. A meta-psychological thinking on the psychodrama's analytic process completes the study "objectified" results. Indeed, it seems necessary to elaborate its effects on the individual's deployment of transitional and associatives capabilities necessary in order to internalize his intra-psychic conflicts and subjective experiences.