defending psychodrama

[Connie Miller]

 AdamI think teaching parts of psychodrama is a wonderful idea. Just teaching doubling in a conference for use by counselors left them wanting more training in that technique. I think that when they learn to use just one technique, they will want to learn more. 
EGO..E dging G od O ut..
.I think in any organization, just as with individuals. the intelligences need to be balanced. The rational mind (IQ)which is about thinking, the emotional mind (EQ)which is about feeling and the spiritual mind (SQ)which is about being. Souldrama is one way, using an action technique, to access that Spiritual Intelligence so that the ego and soul can be aligned. 
This is why I am so delighted that the book, New Advances in Psychodrama includes spirtuality and souldrama. It is a balance of all three intelligences. I can't thank Michael Weiser enough for recommending this as well as Manuel Maciel and Clark Baim for their foresight and recognizing that Manuela and Clark each had to give up their own chapters to edit this book for all of us internationally.
Blessings, Connie


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Blatner [mailto:ablatner at verizon.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 09:50 PM
To: connie at souldrama.com, list at grouptalkweb.org
Subject: Re: defending psychodrama

--- Connie Miller <connie at souldrama.com> wrote:
Dear Connie, nice quote. It resonates with my keynote
talk at the 1999 ASGPP conference, Re-Story-ing the
Soul (available on my website). 
Your vision of multi-dimensional healing and
growth is one I agree with. 
But I'm not sure what you mean by an organization
being ego invested... 

What do you think about the strategy of allowing
psychodramatic elements to be taught separately as
well as in the package, to inform and expand other
trends toward integrative approaches. There are a
number of Morenian ideas not found or only hardly
found in other schools of thought, and each deserves
to be noted and integrated on its own merits. That's
what I'm pondering and would be happy to get input.
Warmly, Adam


> Dear Adam,
> My chapter for the book New Advances in Psychodrama
> begins :
> Intuition
> The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational
> mind is a faithful servant. We have created a
> society that honours the servant and has forgotten
> the gift. Einstein
> Many organizations become ego invested.Your
> experience seems to point this out.
> 
> So..Who Shall Survive? There are many new therapies
> for healing now. I believe that all future therapies
> will perhaps integrate mind, body and spirit in the
> healing. These seem to be the parts of the whole we
> all need to balance so that these parts can be
> aligned.. What is important is that mind, body and
> spirit be balanced in the therapist now as well. We
> heal because of who we are, and not what we do.
> Blessings, Connie
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Blatner [mailto:ablatner at verizon.net]
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 01:07 PM
> To: connie at souldrama.com, list at grouptalkweb.org
> Subject: Re: defending psychodrama
> 
> 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
> 
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