Abstract
A tendency in psychodrama research is the focus on proving effectiveness. This article in the Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie aims to propose arts-based research (ABR) methodology through a theoretical approach by a brief literature review of psychodrama research, a glimpse into discourses in applied theatre research and an introduction to arts-based research (ABR) methodology. How moments of participation and self-identified significant experiences by the participants from a psychodrama group can be investigated through ABR methodology will be exemplified through performative inquiry (Fels 2012), inspired by poetic inquiry (Faulkner 2018). In this way, the article aims to shed light on the question: How might arts-based research methodology in combination with qualitative research methodology contribute to the psychodrama research field? The article also presents empirical and ontological perspectives relating to the pilot study and give a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of applying ABR methodology exemplified in the article. This way, the paper aims to illuminate how ABR methodologies can be applied together with qualitative research methodology to contribute to psychodrama research.
Highlights
Zusammenfassung Eine Tendenz in der Psychodramaforschung ist der Fokus auf einen Effektstärkennachweis
Research through arts-based research (ABR) methodology will not generate proof of the effect of the psychodrama method, but it could potentially give a different understanding of the performative actions in the psychodrama and of how things work performatively and affectively in psychodrama practice
Descriptions of how the site of action in psychodrama generates experiences that initiate essential affects within the participants can be conveyed through ABR
Summary
Based on four major systematic reviews of psychodrama research (P.F. Kellermann 1987; Kipper and Ritchie 2003; Orkibi and Feniger-Schaal 2019; Wieser 2007) and research presented in Stadler et al (2016), it seems like proving the effect of psychodrama interventions and validation of the psychodrama method have been a research trend in psychodrama research. Scheiffele (2001) who gives insight to the subjective experiences during the altered state of acting using the notions from the field Psychology of Consciousness, and McVea et al (2011) who conducted a comprehensive process analysis of significant therapeutic events from psychodrama group therapy. They sought to address the gap in the research literature on the relationship between insession processes during a psychodrama enactment, and therapeutic outcomes they state has not yet been examined The events investigated was the events that the protagonists identified as therapeutically helpful
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