Sociatry

[Adam Blatner]

Maybe I'm not so brilliant, and I do not rest on any authority as an author. I await your 
demonstration and am open to instruction. Please show me where and what.


In Rosa Cukier's new book: Moreno, Psychodrama Vol 1, p 316 footnote. Sociatry is applied 
sociometry. The group psychotherapies are subfields of sociatry, as the latter comprises 
also the application of sociometric knowledge to groups "at a distance", to inter-group 
relations and to mankind as a total unit.-

    I find this unsatisfying, and prefer what I learned, that sociatry applies all that we 
know in the service of social healing. Even if it were more limited, so that, for example, 
Michael Rosenberg's approach to conflict resolution would thus be ruled out, that 
definition... where he then expands it from sociometry to include all (?) group 
psychotherapies as sub-fields, gets closer to my point. The focus, humanity, I agree with. 
Where's the theory?

         Anyway, the point is closer to what Patti Desert said---that I welcome any 
focused discussion that helps to lay out this theory and practice; but sending or writing 
paragraphs or papers about the general nature of the problems facing us may feel 
overwhelming and it doesn't really offer any particular focus. It is sort of magical: If 
you could only see how bad it is you might be stirred to action and then you might (note 
the subjunctive "might") come up with something I haven't yet thought of to fix it."  So 
I'm more interested in what folks in our community, including you, might suggest that has 
any degree of specificity to it.

      With great respect---agreeing with your goal, only differing with you on the wisdom 
of a specific tactic--- 

             Adam



     Warmly, Adam

---- Original Message ----- 

From: "Edward Schreiber" <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
To: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Sociatry


Dear Adam
        You might be an author, you might be a brilliant psychiatrist, but you are wrong 
about a solid definition of sociatry.
Moreno has that covered long ago. It is all there.

Ed