Sociatry

[Edward Schreiber]

Hi Adam,

What you are calling for, as I read this, is an overview of sociatry  
taken from and rooted in Dr. Moreno's writing.   That's a tast we are  
already
in the process of accomplishing and it takes considerable time  
(including days, many days in Boston at the Countway Library going  
through his collection).  We have had one session at the Countway of  
6 days last spring and are in the process of culling from that  
material what we have found toward that end.  I expect at least two  
more sessions of 5 or 6 days to review the whole collection.  Once a  
review is done (and payment is made
for material to be copied) then the task of our intensive editing and  
review happens, which is where now are with our first 6 days of  
research of his collection.  So I hear you are calling for a cogent  
collection of ideas of sociatry from Moreno and that exactly is what  
we are doing.

I would rather do exactly that full time, not have to attend to rent  
or clients, so if you want to (or know of someone he can) offer a  
research grant
for one year I can get it done!  In the meantime if I send red- 
flagged comments from sources, I will point to sociatric ideas as a  
frame,but we
are aslo making a pioneering effort to bring all this foward at this  
time in our history.

One major found unpublished document from his collection, a 500 page  
document - is my focus now.
Best,


Ed


On Aug 19, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:

> 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
>