defending psychodrama

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Jorg and others, 
    The survey was of leaders of counseling programs,
and I question whether writing a letter to anyone will
help. What's needed is a far more vigorous program of
writing papers for journals, doing research,
affiliating with academic programs, presenting at
conferences, again writing it up--just presenting
doesn't do it-- to begin to impress colleagues in the
USA that psychodrama is practical and effective. So
far, many of them in psychology and other fields are
not impressed. I have done what I can, writing papers
in many journals--e.g., the international journal of
psychotherapy has a paper by me addressing the state
of the art in the field, coming out in the November
issue this coming Fall. 
    By the way, I sent out a request for news and
publications, and indeed have been sending out such
requests for over 10 years, with very few people
answering each time. It has been like "pulling teeth."
 It seems as if too many people are "busy" and feel
little obligation to network on the internet or
respond to email.  As a result of what I take to be a
casual attitude about the need to respond to emails,
contribute, go out of one's way to think about how to
promote the field, in certain countries its reputation
among non-psychodramatists continues to slip. It is
too bad, but I assure you that letters of protest to
the survey committee or editors will just be seen as
pathetic rather than compelling. 

    I'll be interested in what you all think about
these ideas. Warmly, Adam Blatner




--- bulmonte21 <bulmonte21 at bluewin.ch> wrote:

> Dear Anne, Adam and colleagues,
> 
> I am ready to contribute with determination to all
> those attempts which 
> are going to keep safe the quality, the scientific
> base and the unique 
> originality of the psychodramatic psychotherapy to
> the editors of the 
> textbook. For that purpose I suggest  to write a
> letter signed by 
> several of us (including colleagues from other
> approaches) and attaching 
> the latest survey on scientific research on
> Psychodrama reviewed by 
> Michael Wieser. Do you agree with that procedure?
> 
> If yes Adam could you please draft one letter as I
> am not english mother 
> tongue speaker? This would be marvellous. Thank you!
> 
> All the best
> 
> Jorge Burmeister
> 
> 
> Anne Schutzenberger perso wrote:
> 
> > Help:how defend Psychodrama Status and have it
> remained in USA 
> > textbook(Anne-France)/List Digest, Vol 1, Issue 60
> >
> > Dear Adam and collegues
> >
> > it is worrying that they are considering in USA to
> delate Psychodrama 
> > from "CURRENT psychotherapies" text book (see
> below) in the succesors 
> > of " Current Psychotherapies," edited by Ray
> Corsini & Danny Wedding.
> >  -then -2nd edition, 1973, by Leon Fine.-then by
> Adam Blatner for the 
> > 4th (1989 , 5th editions (1995), and for the last
> 7th ed (2005). 
> >
> > Please, ADAM, WHO ARE THE SURVEYORS OF THE NEW Cie
> AND WHAT IS THEIR 
> > EMAIL 
> > -OR SOME OF THE EMAILS - I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE IT
> UP WiTH THEM 
> > AND I THINK THAT MANY OF US, (ESPECIALLY OLDTIMERS
> AND HEADS OF 
> > SCHOOLS) SHOULD WRITE TO THEM AND PROTEST ABOUT
> THE DELATION
> >
> > many of our collegues are for the moment in
> Brazil, in Sao Paulo, 
> > for the IAGP congress, and its psychodrama
> section, so may be they 
> > could help and do something,
> >  now,; together, 
> > and take this up as a question during the
> psychodrama various meetings 
> > in Brazil t this congress 
> >
> > -A psychodramatist(Jorg) just has been elected as
> President elect of 
> > IAGP, 
> > International Association for Group
> Psychotherapy(from July 2006 on ) 
> >  an old timer, Anne (97 years old and in
> psychodrama and groupanalysis 
> > since the fifties and co-fouonder of IAGP also,
> and its honorary 
> > archivist(2005-2006 and actually)
> >
> > for the present, a little unwell and resting in
> her high mountain home 
> > of French Alps(France)
> > Professor Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger, PhD,TEP 
> >
> >
> > Tout de bon – Best of best
> >
> > Anne   (Argentière-Chamonix Mont-Blanc) (French
> Alps)
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger, PhD, TEP
> >
> > Professeur des Universites(France) 
> >
> > Psychodramatisty, grpoupanalyst, 
> >
> > Anne.Schutzenberger at wanadoo.fr
> <mailto:Anne.Schutzenberger at wanadoo.fr>
> >
> > anne.schutzenberger at worldonline.fr 
> > <mailto:anne.schutzenberger at worldonline.fr>
> >
> > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/a.ancelin.schutzenberger/
> >
> > ==================
> >
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> >> Dear Colleagues, for your information, one of the
> major textbooks for 
> >> training psychotherapists and counselors has been
> Current 
> >> Psychotherapies, edited by Ray Corsini & Danny
> Wedding. This series 
> >> is now preparing its 8th edition. Chapters on
> psychodrama were first 
> >> included in the 2nd edition, 1973, by Leon Fine.
> I wrote chapters for 
> >> the 4th (1989) and 5th editions (1995), and for
> the last 7th ed (2005). 
> >>
> >>       This series has been taken over by a
> textbook publisher who 
> >> reviews the relevance of each approach so that
> the editors can add 
> >> new ones that seem to be in fashion, take out
> ones that are dropping 
> >> out of favor.
> >>
> >>           Here's a report done by their
> surveyors:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     This was a pre-revision survey that included
> questions on chapter 
> >> organization, general issues, ancillaries, and
> website features.   
> >> The survey respondents were drawn from a pool of
> all those who have 
> >> been sampled the seventh edition of the book,
> excluding the authors 
> >> of this and competing texts.  There were 95
> participants, 60% of 
> >> which were users of the book, while 40% used
> competing books.  They 
> >> came from Psychology, Counseling, Nursing,
> Education, Human 
> >> Development, and Social Work departments,  and
> represented 41 states.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Results
> >>
> >>
> >> The least-assigned chapter was Chapter 13: 
> Psychodrama, which was 
> >> assigned by a little under a quarter of
> professors. 
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