An Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater

The Life Stories of Older Gay Men in Italy and Their Response to a Tele-Drama-Based Intervention: A Qualitative Study Protocol

“…In addition, data from volunteers and social workers, who work with this population will be gathered through semi-structured interviews (see Appendix B) and triangulated with the narrative interviews with the older gay men, in order to strengthen the trustworthiness of the findings. Then, based on the data collected and the literature, an intervention protocol will be written that integrates psychodrama and drama therapy (Dunne, 2003;Kowalsky et al, 2022;Moreno, 1946) with life review techniques (Westerhof & Slatman, 2019). The tele-drama-based intervention will be based on a similar intervention that was found to be effective with older adults both online (Harel & Keisari, 2023) and in person (Keisari et al, 2020(Keisari et al, , 2022.…”

Psychotherapeutic Playback Theatre: Theatre as Therapy

“…The training was delivered by two experts in Psychotherapeutic Playback Theatre (PPT), who were trained at the Israel Institute of Psychotherapeutic Playback Theatre and who, since, have authored the main books and papers on this subject (Kowalsky et al, 2022;Keisari et al, 2022). One of the experts is a dramatherapist and conductor of PT groups with older adults, while the other is one of the founders of PPT.…”

“…These research initiatives were pivotal in promoting the appearance of Psychotherapeutic Playback Theatre (PPT) (Kowalsky et al, 2022), as well as in the building of the research-grant application submitted in 2021 by the authors of this paper to the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Having been approved said research project will reach its end in 2024 (FCT Exploratory Project "Therapeutic Playback Theatre: Impact study", reference 2022.07713.PTDC).…”

Intencionalidad en el Teatro Aplicado

“…El material que se comparte pasa por los filtros de la memoria y la experiencia de quien los narra. La carga de subjetividad y los diferentes niveles desde donde comparte su vivencia son escuchados por quien la representa (Kowalsky et al, 2022). Quien dirige la ceremonia elige la forma que considere más apropiada de representación y el grupo de intérpretes ejecuta el material al escenificarlo.…”

“…Contar la historia para recibir su devolución reinterpretada genera, en quien confía el material, un proceso de contacto consigo mismo y de toma de conciencia, similar al que se genera en el encuadre terapéutico desde los enfoques de la terapia narrativa o de la terapia sistémica. Esto se explica a partir de la cibernética del segundo orden, que explicita que tanto el objeto observado como el observador, cambian cuando se produce la observación (Kowalsky et al, 2022).…”