Analysis of the correlation between the themes of the public psychodrama at CCSP and the newspaper headlines

Abstract

The public psychodramas in the city of São Paulo take place at the Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP) and intend to create public spaces that accommodate different subjectivities, as well as to exchange ideas, values, and experiences of life as of the collective construction of the dramatized stories. This article correlates the themes that were dramatized at those sessions available at the website from the Brazilian Psychodrama Association (FEBRAP) during 2015, 2016, and 2017 with the main headlines of the two local newspapers O Estado de São Paulo and Folha de São Paulo. The purpose was to investigate if the public psychodrama sessions could build citizenship within the members of the session. It was verified that the sessions that happened at the CCSP were significant to this construction by opening discussion of current social issues even though there were greater correlations between the themes as a whole, than the temporal coincidence between themes and the weekend’s headlines.