It is valuable in terms of integrating to benefit from ethnodrama from a working method in which the scientific methods used in psychodrama studies can be used within the framework of ethnic identity.
Psychodrama makes important contributions to the understanding of one’s own needs and the interaction and relationship between these needs and their experiences. Psychodramatic methods will be useful in understanding and sharing common feelings and experiences in ethnodrama studies.
Apart from the work examples of psychotherapists coming from abroad, ethnodrama studies in the field of mental health have not yet received the necessary attention in our country.
Although there are many different ethnic groups in Turkey, the risks of ethno drama studies are considered more important than their benefits.
The lack of many articles and books on the theoretical structure and application examples of ethnodrama studies is also an important shortcoming.
Ethnopsychiatry is an approach that deals with mental illnesses according to the cultural and ethnic groups to which individuals belong. It includes efforts to detect and monitor disorders.
It is important to work in a way that will feed constructive feelings such as belonging and inner peace by gaining strength from development and cultural ties. In terms of content, ethnodrama studies, which is one of the sociodrama-psychodrama methods that contain action-oriented approaches, can be used.
In representational works, we see that a section of life becomes theatrical in arts such as painting, cinema, and performance. It may include performances in literature, sports, aesthetic work, popular entertainment, etc. Qualified representation is a kind of ethnodrama and when ethnic problems and trans people are expressed correctly, different attitudes can be formed and even adopted.
Ethnodramatic events related to traditional dance, magic ritual, celebration, play include representation theory studies. These studies, under the chairmanship of Weisz, Zorrilla, and Nunez, have a basis that researches experiments and experiences that examine different forms of perception and knowledge, which began in 1981 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico City in Mexico.
Ethnodrama theory makes sense of magical and mythological representations. The situation or phenomenon created is not initiation and patterns regulated by biological processes.
As a social being, we can say that man is structured according to the dynamics of his inner world. Changes occurring in the body, life and vice versa. Re-representation of the external world of man in concepts and myths creates a restorative integrity through rituals. (2)
When the acquisitions of psychodrama, enriched with awareness for making sense of the action-based and internal processes, are combined with ethnodrama, much stronger wholeness can be formed.
Establishing complex relationships between the two worlds, ethnic and contemporary attitudes by using the brain and body contains elements that increase the treatment in ethnodrama studies. “…it is necessary to emphasize that cognitive structures are originated and regulated by biological processes, and this is inherent in any representational activity. There is a vital bridge between the body and life, and if there is no change in the second, there can be no change involving the first. ” Weisz,JR (3)
There is a need to use psychodrama-sociodrama studies, especially in the ethnic field, which paves the way for expressing both negative and positive emotions, understanding their effects and even gaining new perspectives.
Unfortunately, as a method that has not received attention in terms of theory and practice in our country, it is not yet used sufficiently in our field of social psychology.
resources
1. Great Larousse dictionary and encyclopedia, Gelisim Publications issue 7, Page 3874-3875
2. “The Subliminal Body: Shamanism, Ancient Theatre, and Ethnodrama.” Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: Essays in Art, Literature, and Culture. Ed. Camayd-Freixas, Erik, Gonzalez, José Eduardo. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2000. 209-219.
3. Weisz JR, Gabriel, and Oscar Zorrilla. “Seminar Research Etnodramáticas De La UNAM Create” Page 11 (1986): 1-4
