psychodrama program

[Peter Howie]

Hi there,

Of course doing a psychodrama Phd does not require the supervisor to 
be a psychodramatist but rather a decent researcher and writer and 
mentor in a research sense. And it requires a school with someone who 
has an interest that matches the requirements. My experience with 
Universities around here is that they are very keen to have 
researchers that have experience rather than researchers that have 
spent their life in study only.

My colleague and fellow trainer Charmaine McVea is doing a research 
PhD on psychodrama for instance.

I am completing  Master of Education which is designed to be 
articulated into a Phd. My interest is at the more basic level of 
things like spontaneity/creativity, spontaneity/learning/creativity 
etc. Not sure yet. Kevin Franklin in Perth did his Phd proving that 
spontaneity, far from being a useful construct or a mental model can 
be considered to actually exist in a provable and measurable manner. 
His peer reviewed PhD is a remarkable piece of work. Quite remarkable 
for such a 'fringe' group like us to be the only psychological model, 
according to Kevin and I would tend to believe him, that has its 
central axiom proven in a peer reviewed work in a comprehensive manner.


Cheers

Peter Howie
Brisbane, Australia



At 03:01 AM 30/11/2006, you wrote:
>Dear Ms Sciacca, please tell me where you are and how far along you 
>are in your
>development. If I know your interests and what you want to do with 
>this training, perhaps
>I can be of some help in networking you.
>           I haven't heard of any psychodrama training specialty at 
> NYU, though they do
>have one of the three accredited Drama Therapy Master's Degree 
>programs in the USA (the
>other two being in San Francisco and Montreal).
>        Consider coming to the ASGPP conference in Brooklyn in April 
> or the NADT (drama
>therapy) conference in Montreal in early August.
>         Warmly, Adam
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "joann sciacca" <jbsciacca at optonline.net>
>To: "'Adam Blatner'" <adam at blatner.com>; <list at grouptalkweb.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:06 AM
>Subject: RE: psychodrama program
>
>
> >I THOUGHT NYU WAS DEVELOPING ONE? WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT, I WOULD LOVE TO DO
> > THAT BUT IT WOULD NEED TO BE CLOSER.  JOANN SCIACCA
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > On Behalf Of Adam Blatner
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:11 PM
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> > Subject: Fw: psychodrama program
> >
> >
> > Dear friends,  I've had an interesting conversation with a fellow from
> > Denmark seeking
> > graduate training in the USA in psychodrama. The only program he found
> > offering a PhD
> > program was this one
> >   http://www.itp.edu/academics/spotPsychodrama.cfm
> >
> >      Interestingly, I know the institute, one of the more established new
> > age programs,
> > and even had some brief
> > correspondence with the fellow teaching the class, Harris Clemes,
> > Ph.D.(1961). I
> > encouraged him to come to the national psychodrama conference last April,
> > but he had other
> > commitments. His own training was with a fellow who never was part of the
> > field. I've
> > encouraged him to become more well-read in the field. This is an example of
> > people seeing
> > it and thinking they can do it, and one of the reasons that a certification
> > Board was felt
> > to be necessary.
> >      I was a bit shocked and dismayed that they don't just teach a few
> > courses, but
> > presume to offer a PhD in psychodrama. I plan to write them and question
> > this.
> >
> >    I wonder how often classes are being taught by people with no formal
> > Morenian
> > psychodrama trainng.
> >                Warmly, Adam
> >
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