Analytical Psychodrama: An Integrative Approach
We invite you to take part in the online training programme
Analytical Psychodrama: An Integrative Approach.
Duration: 6 seminars, (4 hours each).
Price: 70 US dollars or 65 euro
Dates: 2026 November 21, 2026 December 5, 2026 December 19,
2027 January 9, 2027 January 23, 2027 February 6.
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Programme
Theoretical foundations, clinical case analyses, hands-on technique practice (fishbowl and small breakout groups), analytical processing, and sharing.
Seminar 1. The French School of Psychoanalytic Psychodrama – 2026 November 21.
Individual and group psychodrama through a psychoanalytic lens (S. Lebovici, R. Diatkine, D. Anzieu)
Theory:
* Reimagining Morenian action: transitioning from catharsis to free association in movement.
* Psychodrama as a clinical tool for addressing preverbal trauma, narcissistic pathology, and psychosomatic conditions.
* Didier Anzieu’s Skin-Ego (le Moi-peau) concept and the bodily-spatial boundaries of the therapeutic group.
* The specific role of the therapist and co-therapists: analytical neutrality, interpretation through action, and maintaining the transference–countertransference frame.
Practice & Experiential Work:
* Clinical simulation of French individual psychoanalytic psychodrama (one protagonist working alongside a team of trained co-therapists).
* Tracking bodily micro-expressions and navigating unconscious enactments (acting out vs. acting in).
* Process analysis: examining splitting and containment dynamics across the therapeutic team.
Seminar 2. Paul Holmes’ Object Relations Psychodrama – 2026 December 5.
Integrating psychodrama with the conceptual frameworks of Melanie Klein, D. W. Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion
Theory:
* Externalizing the internal world: the psychodramatic stage as a three-dimensional field of internal object representations.
* Mechanisms of splitting, projective identification, and fusion on the psychodramatic stage.
* Working clinically with separation anxiety, transitional space, and the “good-enough” environment.
* The Director’s role: containing archaic affects and transforming beta-elements into alpha-elements via playful enactment.
Practice & Experiential Work:
* “Sculpting the Internal Object System” technique: externalizing and mapping the protagonist’s introjects on stage.
* Navigating projective identification among auxiliary egos: fine-tuning and calibrating countertransference responses.
* Analytical sharing: differentiating personal participant material from induced role reactions.
Seminar 3. Jungian Psychodrama – 2026 December 19.
The archetypal stage, active imagination in action, and clinical dreamwork
Theory:
* Synthesizing J. L. Moreno’s classical psychodrama with C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology (R. Marineau, M. Stein).
* Externalizing the personal and collective unconscious: personifying the Shadow, Anima/Animus, Persona, and the Self.
* Dramatizing dreams and mythologems: applying amplification within a spatial action framework.
* Symptom teleology: uncovering the latent trajectory toward individuation rather than focusing solely on causal trauma.
Practice & Experiential Work:
* Enacting a protagonist’s dream: selecting key dream elements and entering into direct dialogue with archetypal figures.
* “Staging the Persona–Shadow Conflict” technique: integrating rejected and disowned aspects of the psyche.
* The transcendent function in action: co-creating symbolic resolutions and emergent narrative closures.
Seminar 4. Gestalt Monodrama – 2027 January 9.
Polarities, empty chair / hot seat interventions, and contact at the Self–Other boundary
Theory:
* Monodrama in individual therapy (F. Perls, E. Nevis): integrating psychodramatic action into one-on-one sessions.
* Contact interruptions (introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, confluence) and staging them visually.
* Working with structural polarities (Top Dog vs. Underdog) and resolving unfinished business.
* Monodramatic props: using chairs, cushions, and symbolic objects to anchor externalized ego states.
Practice & Experiential Work:
* Two-chair session protocol: mechanics of chair switching, bodily amplification, and anchoring in the here-and-now.
* Interventions for retroflection: converting somatic blocks and physical tension into directed expressive action.
* Monodrama masterclass demonstration followed by a clinical breakdown of the contact cycle.
Seminar 5. Short-Term Analytical Psychodrama (STAP) – 2027 January 23.
An integrative model combining psychoanalysis, systemic family therapy, and psychodrama (E. Eidemiller & N. Alexandrova)
Theory:
* Methodology and structure of the STAP framework: diagnostic, psychodramatic, and integrative phases.
* The “pathogenetic node” construct and defining focused targets in brief dynamic psychotherapy.
* Clinical adaptations for working with families, adolescents, and psychosomatic patients under tight time constraints.
* Sociometry and structural interventions for identifying covert family alliances and relational coalitions.
Practice & Experiential Work:
* Protocol for a rapid diagnostic warm-up and setting a psychodynamic focus within 15 minutes.
* Step-by-step systemic conflict enactment using the Eidemiller–Alexandrova protocol.
* Techniques for restructuring emotional experience within time-limited therapy settings.
Seminar 6. Analytical Psychodrama and Neuroscience – 2027 February 6.
Biological markers of action: neuroplasticity, memory reconsolidation, and embodied intersubjectivity
Theory:
* Mirror neuron systems, Polyvagal Theory (S. Porges), and the neurobiology of empathy in psychodramatic doubling.
* Traumatic memory reconsolidation: why experiential, embodied enactment creates deeper neuroplastic change than purely verbal insight.
* Somatic markers (A. Damasio) and somatic resonance across the client–therapist dyad and group matrix.
* Clinical guidelines for neurobiologically informed analytical psychodrama (safety, affect titration, and interhemispheric integration).
Practice & Experiential Work:
* Doubling techniques focused on autonomic self-regulation and polyvagal state shifts (ventral vs. dorsal vagal regulation).
* Correcting traumatic imprints by staging safe, adaptive completions of interrupted defensive stress responses.
* Final integration: comparative review of all six paradigms and formulating treatment strategies for specific clinical profiles.
About the Instructor
Arseniy Tarabanov, Ph.D., is a Gestalt practitioner and psychotherapist.
He is a member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society (NPSA) and the Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA). He completed his specialized training in Short-Term Analytical Psychodrama (STAP), psychosculpting, and related analytical methods under Professor Edmond Eidemiller, the developer of the STAP/CASP method.
In his clinical practice, Dr. Tarabanov synthesizes analytical psychodrama, Gestalt monodrama, and Jungian active imagination. He has taught psychodrama within the Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) and actively researches the neurobiological foundations of psychodrama in affiliation with the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society (NPSA).
He is a co-author of the textbook Child Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Medical Psychology (2020), co-developer of the Short-Term Analytic-Network Psychodrama methodology (with Edmond Eidemiller), and the author of multiple scholarly publications on neuropsychoanalysis and psychodrama.
Dr. Tarabanov serves as Director of the Institute of Neurocommunication and Psychotherapy (Vilnius), where he develops the Embodied Analytical Psychodrama (EAP) paradigm—an integrative clinical framework bridging analytical psychodrama and contemporary affective neuroscience. He also oversees the incorporation of bibliodrama and drama therapy into the Institute’s clinical and training programs.
