An inevitable bewilderment before choosing a psychotherapeutic model

Abstract

Since the beginning of life, disease appears to be ubiquitous among all living beings. Confronting this, there were born three primitive ways of healing: healing by words, healing through intervention on the body and by influencing through suggestion. Nowadays, important occurring changes due to the product of cultural evolution, scientific interchanges, and migratory processes force the need for rethinking of psychotherapist´s task. From time to time the claimed capacity of a therapeutic tool is usually based on arguments that hide, above all, a belief attitude, assuming that this by itself implies a sufficient epistemological support. This is obviously not true. Psychodrama arise from the group comprehension of human beings, leaning on a pragmatic scientific model that takes into consideration all the communication processes occurring in the interaction between human beings, including verbal language, non-verbal language (and within it, the paralanguage), and physical contact, also taking into consideration topology and proxemics. A psychodramatist takes into account all the people who build the core relationship of the subject in therapy, that is, their belonging subgroups and, beyond them, the social space in which their life, work, friendship, sports, et cetera take place. All of them become “essential characters" when the subject is envisioned in its social belonging and cosmic dimension. It´s also accountable the extension of its action in space, since we start from the fact that in the here and now, the past, present, and possible futures are present in an unavoidable way. “What for replacing the why”, the purpose therapy, strengthen up as an independent model more than as a technical formalization of the therapist's attention, focusing not so much in the historical origin of pathological pictures, paying attention to the subject’s internal world factors that links with the struggle between the pathogenic and the salutogenic positions. When the psychodramatist on a brave impulse can transgress the time and dares to take a tremendous step forward, the extension of what psychodrama deals with breakdowns the usual spaces’ barriers of the nowadays, introducing his intervention in what we call transpersonal and also in the transcendent realm.