Adam, you started this:could we have their names &email, Please:defending psychodrama

[Adam Blatner]

dear Manuela, 
    I appreciate your good intentions, but let's think
carefully and rationally about this whole matter.
First, have you read my previous replies?
     Second... let's address each of your points. see
below:

--- Manuela Maciel <manuelamaciel at sapo.pt> wrote:

> Dear Anne, Adam, Jorge and all
     I do believe that it is important to be proactive
in this situation and do something fast about it. 
    ab: your belief is a sentiment but not a rational
statement. what is proactive rather than reactive
here? 
   Also "do something" is far from specific, to say
the least.

   MM: It doesn`t make sense that we let 
"psychodrama" fall out of the current  Psychotherapies
handbook in the USA.
   ab: it is regrettable, perhaps, but of course it
makes sense. Psychodrama as a package doesn't sell. To
say it makes no sense is like the maker of computer
brand A complaining that it makes no sense that
computer brand B is outselling them. 
     There are scores of new therapies and more
approaches coming out every year in the USA. Packaged
systems are losing ground. I'll say more about this
later on.

   MM What can we do then?   I have an unusual
recommendation that might help in the long run: Break
psychodrama down into its component parts and
integrate them with other approaches; deny the
authority of all systems in this postmodern culture;
promote the usefulness of the parts independently. 
    MM Can we find a consensus?   ab: so far I've
heard little of substance, just a lot of
complaining...

    MM    I want to cooperate!   ab: please read my
previous comments about the need for publications,
research, etc. My impression is that the output in
Europe and Latin America significantly exceeds that in
the USA, which may explain why it is growing there. I
don't know about the proliferation of competing
approaches. 

   Also, your efforts on behalf of psychodrama should
be recognized, both as editor of the book on advancing
theories of psychodrama and as chair of the iagp-pd
section.

    Warmly 
> Manuela Maciel