Psychodrama and Sociodrama
These two pages also currently include titles written or suggested by speakers at the BPA Psychodrama and Sociodrama Conference 2024. You can find details of this conference HERE.
Polyvagal Prompts Finding Connection and Joy Through Guided Exploration
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In Polyvagal Prompts, Deb Dana and Courtney Rolfe invite readers to explore their nervous systems through Polyvagal Theory with engaging questions and exercises, which readers can respond to directly in the pages of the book. Readers are guided in noticing their systems, listening with curiosity, and reflecting on what they learn.
Healing Relational Trauma Workbook: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy in Practice
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A resource for practitioners implementing attachment-focused treatment for young people.
Reddy Gets Jealous
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In this primary caregiver (parent)-child therapeutic story the parent uses DDP-PACE to stay connected with the child’s feelings. Reddy’s parents noticed and named her feelings of disappointment as her hopes and dreams for a sibling were not as she expected. Through the story they offer Reddy acceptance, curiosity and empathy.
Recommended Titles
Recommended titles by experts in the field.
Trauma-Informed Principles in Group Therapy, Psychodrama, and Organizations: Action Methods for Leadership
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This book presents trauma-informed principles for ethical, safe, and effective group work, psychodrama, and leadership.
Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety
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Here, for the first time, is a layperson’s explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm.
Group Psychodrama for Dementia, Old Age, and Loneliness: Trusting the Process
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Group Psychodrama for Dementia, Old Age, and Loneliness offers a fresh approach for professionals working with older individuals by employing new and exciting custom methodologies in psychodrama, particularly for clients with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Fundamentals of Psychodrama
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This book offers a comprehensive guide to psychodrama, including the underlying philosophy, methodology, theory and applications. Taking readers through the process of staging a psychodrama session, from the contracting phase, exploration and enactment to closure and integration, the book also presents brief short examples to illustrate how to choose the best methodological approach for any context, and describes in detail the various psychodrama techniques and their application in practice, with indications, contraindications, typical pitfalls and FAQs.
Social Work, Sociometry, and Psychodrama: Experiential Approaches for Group Therapists, Community Leaders, and Social Workers
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This open access book outlines the intersections between social work and the methods of sociometry and psychodrama. Different sections offer essential practice wisdom for both trauma-focused and trauma-informed experiential work for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities.
Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety
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This flip chart offers therapists an easy, standardised way to support clients in understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system in their lives. Using a flip chart makes psycho-education an interactive experience.
Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies: When Words Are Not Enough
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Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies is a cross-professional book looking at current approaches to working therapeutically and socially with trauma in a creative and embodied way.
Moreno’s Personality Theory and its Relationship to Psychodrama: A Philosophical, Developmental and Therapeutic Perspective
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Giving up to date reflections on Moreno’s contribution and writings, this book brings a new perspective and will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of psychodrama, sociodrama, creative arts therapies, existential philosophy and intellectual history.
J.L. Moreno and the Psychodramatic Method: On the Practice of Psychodrama
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Beginning with a discussion of the intrinsic nature of psychodrama and providing the reader with a thorough description of the psychodramatic method, this book navigates the nature, applications, theories, and practices of the techniques originated by J. L. Moreno.
One-to-One Psychodrama Psychotherapy: Applications and Technique
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One-to-One Psychodrama Psychotherapy: Applications and Technique will be an invaluable resource and manual to the field for those training in or practising psychodrama psychotherapy in a one-to-one frame. This book brings together for the first time current thinking and practice, developed and refined at the London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy.
Action Explorations : Using Psychodramatic Methods in Non-Therapeutic Settings
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Offering a vast repertoire of techniques—such as role-taking, role reversal, role distancing, improvising, amplifying, exaggerating, replaying, and doubling—action explorations provides a framework for practitioners to tackle wide-ranging and complex issues.
Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory – The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies
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This comprehensive edited collection brings together accomplished therapists, including those who work with children, EMDR, medical trauma, energy psychology, grief and more
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
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This book distills that theory into practical clinical tips, explaining its relevance to the social engagement system and offering clinical examples, including cases of trauma and autism.
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children (3rd Edition)]
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A highly accessible resource for students and professionals as well as parents, Building the Bonds of Attachment presents a composite case study of one child’s developmental course following years of abuse and neglect. Weaving theory and research into a powerful narrative, Hughes offers effective methods for facilitating attachment in children who have experienced serious trauma.
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Psychodrama. Empirical Research and Science 2: Volume 2: Psychodrama. Empirische Forschung und Wissenschaft 2 (English/German)
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The Inner World Outside: Object Relations Theory and Psychodrama
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First published in 1993, The Inner World Outside has become a classic in its field. Paul Holmes walks the reader through the ‘inner world’ of object relationships and the corresponding ‘outside world’ shared by others in which real relationships exist. Trained as a psychotherapist in both psychoanalytical and psychodramatic methods, Paul Holmes has written a well informed, clear introduction to Object Relations Theory and its relation to psychodrama.
The Quintessential Zerka: Writings by Zerka Toeman Moreno on Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
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The Quintessential Zerka documents the origins and development of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy through the work and innovation of its co-creator, Zerka Toeman Moreno.
Contemporary Psychodrama: New Approaches to Theory and Technique
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Contemporary Psychodrama weaves together psychodrama and psychoanalysis with illustrative clinical examples, whilst preserving the essence of psychodramatic philosophy and methodology. Previously unavailable in the English language, this book presents José Fonseca’s diverse new approaches to psychodrama together with a blending of theories.
Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network
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“Impromptu Man captures the remarkable impact of a singular genius, J.L. Moreno, whose creations—the best-known being psychodrama—have shaped our culture in myriad ways, many unrecognized. The record will be set straight for all time by this can’t-put-down biography, a tribute by Jonathan D. Moreno to his father’s masterly legacy.” —DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Empowering Therapeutic Practice: Integrating Psychodrama into Other Therapies
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This book explores the exciting areas of overlap between psychodrama and other therapeutic schools and presents opportunities for their creative interaction and integration.
Psychodrama, Surplus Reality and the Art of Healing
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The practice of psychodrama allows participants to create a world for themselves, free of usual rules and constraints. This freedom from all ordinary conventions is what Moreno called ‘Surplus Reality’, and is one of the most vital, curative and mysterious elements of psychodrama.