The SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE PSICODRAMA (Portuguese Psychodrama Association) was founded in 1986, by twelve psychiatrists trained since 1982 under the direction of the Brazilian psychodramatist, Alfredo Correia Soeiro, MD, who was the President of the V International Psychodrama Congress in São Paulo (Brazil) in 1970. The first training group started in Oporto  according to the training programme of the argentine and brazilian school of Psychodrama, led by Jaime Rojas Bermudez, MD. Then other training groups were running in Coimbra and in Lisbon. Now the S.P.P. has a training programme under the direction of the Portuguese Psychodramatists.

However the first groups of Morenian Psychodrama in Portugal (as Triadic Psychodrama including psychodrama, group psychotherapy, group process and non-verbal communication developed by Jim Enneis and Anne Ancelin Schützenberger) were running in Lisbon in the late sixties by the French psychologist Pierre Weil, working in Belo Horizonte in Brazil, later replaced by Anne Ancelin Schützenberger, PhD, TEP. These groups were heterogenious and included psychiatrists, psychologists, teachers, social workers and people interested in movies, theatre and the arts, but the experience was interrupted after the Carnation Revolution, without any form of organization.

The S.P.P. is a "no profit scientific association , with the goals to promote and publicise activities, studies and research in psychodrama and sociodrama; to organize and co-ordinate courses for clinical training of qualified professionals for the pratise of these techniques".

and III Ibero-American Psychodrama Conference  (Póvoa de Varzim, 2001)

At present the Board of the S.P.P. includes Gabriela Moita (President), Manuela Maciel (Vice-President), Sara de Sousa, Suzana Cardoso, Joaquim Cabeças, Miguel Vasconcelos and Paula Carriço, and the Training Committee includes José Manuel Teixeira de Sousa (President), José Luis Pio Abreu, Luciano Moura, Fernando Vieira and Maria João Brito.
 
The S.P.P. is a member of the International Association of Group Psychoterapy (I.A.G.P.), Psychodrama Section, founded in Zurich in 1973 by J. L. Moreno, and of the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (F.E.P.T.O.)
 
 
Training Programme

(revised in Coimbra,  October 2005)
SELF-EXPERIENCE / PERSONAL THERAPY: 200 hours /2 years   
THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL PROGRAMME: 150 hours   
PSYCHODRAMATIC SUPERVISION: 150 hours   
CO-DIRECTION UNDER SUPERVISION: 150 hours
FREE (Participation in conferences, workshops, training accredited by the Training Committee): 70 hours
PRACTISE AS DIRECTOR: 160 hours (estimated)
ACCUMULATED TOTAL: 880 hours
 
Theoretical-Practical Programme

Director of Psychodrama (150 hours)  
THEORY AND TECHNIQUES OF PSYCHODRAMA: 20 hours   
ETHOLOGY AND PSYCHODRAMA: 10 hours   
THEORY OF COMMUNICATION AND PSYCHODRAMA: 10 hours   
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND PSYCHODRAMA: 20 hours   
DIRECTOR'S ROLE TRAINING: 10 hours   
INDIVIDUAL PSYCHODRAMA: 10 hours   
COUPLES AND FAMILIES SOCIODRAMA: 10 hours   
INSTITUTIONAL AND PEDAGOGIC (ROLE-PLAYING) SOCIODRAMA: 10 hours   
DRAMATIC PLAY AND GAMES: 10 hours   
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES AND MASKS: 10 hours   
PSYCHODANCE AND PUBLIC PSYCHODRAMA: 10 hours
PSYCHODRAMA WITH CHILDREN: 10 hours   
SOCIOMETRY: 10 hours
 
Director of Sociodrama (150 hours)