psychodrama program
Adam Blatner
adam at blatner.com
Thu Dec 14 22:42:16 CST 2006
Dear Peter,
You made a number of excellent points. While there are no PhD programs in psychodrama per se, it is possible to do research and have as the subject of one's thesis some aspect of psychodrama within a wide range of departments--
theatre arts communications psychology sociology criminology
clinical psychology (psychotherapy) education organizational development, business and management
nursing pastoral counseling and so forth.
Indeed, the applications of psychodrama-- or, I prefer the more encompassing category of Morenian thought-- to education seems to be to me an especially promising direction! I am becoming more interested in prevention than treatment as I grow older (though I continue to have some interest in treatment, too).
Sociometry
applied role theory
role talk as a language
creativity research and promoting this
applied theatre (my latest book-- an umbrella term for using drama for education, therapy, community building, social action, personal and collective empowerment, and perhaps even for involving people in recreation--not just watching a play, but playing--
( www.interactiveimprov.com/contents.html for more about this)
as well as psychodrama, action methods, etc. all can be applied separately and in combination for various purposes...
and research can be done in these areas, also.
Warmly, Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Howie
To: Adam Blatner ; list at grouptalkweb.org
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: psychodrama program
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
>
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> On Behalf Of Adam Blatner
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:11 PM
> To: list at grouptalkweb.org
> 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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