Publications

A selection of publications on psychodrama, body work, trauma, gender roles, prevention and social participation.

Featured publication

2021

Intercultural competence in working with traumatised people with refugee experience

Journal of Psychodrama and Sociometry · 2021

This contribution addresses the question of which intercultural competencies are needed in psychotherapeutic and psychosocial work with traumatised people who have refugee experience. It highlights sensitivity to life realities, contextual understanding and sustainable relationship building.

  • Interculturality
  • Transculturality
  • Flight
  • Trauma
  • Psychodrama
  • Refugees
  • Tension
  • Role expansion
  • Diversity
  • Inclusion

Further publications

2023

  • Psychodrama
  • Women*
  • Girls*
  • Body
  • Sharing
  • Sociometry

Body politics – an exercise in body relationship

Journal of Psychodrama and Sociometry · 2023

This publication shows how an exercise focused on the relationship to one’s own body can open a sensitive path into body-related topics. The focus lies on perception, the relationship to one’s own body and psychodramatic work with girls* and women* in individual and group settings. The exercise is suitable for all genders.

2022

  • Sociodrama
  • Creativity
  • Gaze
  • Liminality
  • Resilience

Virtual sociodrama: Building collective creative resilience in the liminality of Covid-19 pandemic

Journal of Psychodrama and Sociometry · 2022

This article explores how virtual sociodrama can strengthen collective creativity and resilience in times of social uncertainty. It focuses on transitional experiences during the pandemic and on processing social and emotional strain together.

2018

  • Psychodrama
  • Prevention
  • Eating disorders
  • Society
  • Gender
  • Normativity
  • Boundary

When am I right? Prevention of eating disorders.

Journal of Psychodrama and Sociometry · 2018

This publication addresses the prevention of eating disorders in the field of tension between self-image, body perception and societal norms. Within a heteronormative society, expectations of body optimization go far beyond food restriction. Through the avoidance of certain food categories, new forms of belonging are negotiated. Sociocultural and media-driven influencing factors are identified in order to make societal dynamics visible and open to change.

2016

  • Psychodrama
  • Role development
  • Gender
  • Adolescents

Development of gender roles in adolescence

Journal of Psychodrama and Sociometry · 2016

This article focuses on the development of gender roles in adolescence and their relevance for identity, self-understanding and social orientation. It looks at developmental processes shaped by belonging, norms and individual unfolding.

2019

  • Digital media
  • Marginalisation
  • Participation
  • Society

Shouldn’t the world become better?

Digital media, emancipatory potential and marginalisation · STIMME · 2019

This publication reflects on the ambivalence of digital media between emancipatory potential and new forms of marginalisation. It asks how social participation, visibility and mechanisms of exclusion interact in digital spaces.

  • Psychodrama
  • Relational dependency
  • Co-dependent
  • Sociometry
  • Perspective taking
  • Role giver

Dynamics in the relationship of co-dependent and person with dependent personality disorder

Springer

The article examines similarities and differences in relationship patterns between co-dependent individuals and individuals with dependent personality disorder. Both are forms of relational disturbance, so-called closeness disorders. “I know what is good for you!” is a typical statement of a co-dependent person, whereas a person with dependent personality disorder is more likely to express: “You know what is good for me!”