defending psychodrama

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Connie, thank you. I've been thinking about the
problem. One part of it is that the teachers who use
this text and the textbook itself is in a certain
sense obsolete because many if not most practitioners
are integrative, eclectic, and no longer think in
terms of schools of thought. In a recent conference
brochure (about a conference to be held in San
Francisco in November, I think, put out by the
Psychotherapy Networker journal), I was struck by the
fact that almost none of the presenters were
presenting any of the "classical" systems. 
    In medicine, also, there are no systems of
healing, but rather it is a dynamic field in which new
technologies and theories, ideas and techniques are
introduced, some discarded as relatively ineffective
or less effective or more side effects or too
expensive compared to other approaches that are
introduced. So all is in dynamic flux, a creative
advance. 
    Then I contemplated psychodrama and it occurred to
me that its component parts could well be utilized
separatly, or in various combinations with each other
and with other approaches and techniques. 
      I awoke and began to write a paper that I'll
polish a bit and should any of you be interested, I'll
finish and post on my website. 
     In working with used cars, it's called parting it
out.
  Well, thanks again for your pioneering spirit. 
      (Did you know I took psychodrama to the American
Psychiatric Association and had my workshop invited
back every year for ten years? But then there was an
advancing influence of CBT  and evidence-based
therapies and it was dropped.)

     warmly, adam




--- Connie Miller <connie at souldrama.com> wrote:

> To Adam,
> I congratulate you for trying as hard as you do to
> keep psychdrama alive in the USA. You have always
> been one I could go to to get information and
> support. As Mother Theresa said, I will march for
> what I am for and not against. I find in America, so
> many counselors do not know about psychodrama
> because it is not demonstrated openly.!
> Another suggestion to get psychodrama more noticed I
> have made before. That is volunteering to bring
> workshops different state and local organizations
> such as American Counseling Association. When I
> presented two years ago, there was only one other
> psychodramatist there for 5000 attendees. I will be
> presenting Souldrama again at the preconference
> there next year for the national convention. Each
> state has an organization of ACA. Last year I did a
> presentation on doubling for New Jersey. There were
> over 40 counselors who loved the technique and never
> heard of it. They wanted more time during the
> presentation. This is an excellent way to draw
> trainees and to promote psychodrama.. Blessings,
> Connie
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Blatner [mailto:ablatner at verizon.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:55 PM
> To: 'bulmonte21', 'Anne Schutzenberger perso'
> Cc: 'Grouptalk Tom TREADWELL\(2006\)', 'Christer
> Sandahl',
> 'Rene.Marineau\(2005\) Rene', 'Fahlstrom
> Eva*\(Upp\)Fahlstrom', 'Thomas Treadwell',
> 'GARCIA \(USA\)Eduardo.ASGPP', 'Bonds-White
> Frances', 'MACIEL Manuela MACIEL\(2006\)',
> 'TAUVON Kate', 'KIBEL\(IAGP&perso\) Howard', 'Daniel
> Sue', 'eva fahlstrom'
> Subject: defending psychodrama
> 
> 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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> > >
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