Fw: Sociatry81907

[T. Treadwell]

yes, to the question raised about action methods - they are indeed being
used in other areas outside of the psychotherapeutic area.  There will be
a special issue on sociatry (in progress) that will appear in the journal.
 Secondly, there is another dimension of how action methods are used in
the legal communities - this also will appear shortly in the journal.

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>>    Marion Chase, the mama of dance therapy, had an interesting and
>> successful way of working with deeply disturbed people. She began moving
>> with the client exactly as s/he moved, and only after she had done this
>> for a while did she begin to expand her own movement, incrementally, to
>> make it larger or to move it in a different direction. She began by
>> joining, and making small changes so the client would move along with
>> her,
>> rather than rejecting her movements. She helped them expand their
>> movement
>> repertoire.
>>
>>  I think there is a parallel to what you are saying, here, Adam.
>>
>> In addition, I would like to know, specifically, what people are doing
>> with action methods to address environmental, political, social,
>> economic,
>> etc. concerns....Herb Propper has been  recently writing to Grouptalk
>> about taking action methods into the Muslim culture of Bangladesh. I
>> know
>> Susan Aaron has been working with Six Nations folks up in Canada.  Mary
>> Bellafatto has used action methods to help with reconciliation on
>> Africa.
>> Who else?
>>    Is there anyone out there out there working outside the
>> psychotherapuetic model, using action methods to address
>> socio/political/environmental issues here in the US or abroad?
>>
>> Rebecca
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>>
>>
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>> From: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>
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>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:26 AM
>> Subject: Sociatry81907
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>>>
>>>
>>>    Dear Ed,  I certainly respect your social concern. I just question
>>> the
>>> value of
>>> re-stating the degree of  trouble we're in and noting all its
>>> permutations. It seems as if
>>> you're shouting, but as I say, my preference is to focus more on
>>> specific
>>> remedies.
>>> Really, we're talking about consciousness raising, and including
>>> ecology
>>> as part of our
>>> circle of concern. The next question is, how can we best do this?
>>>       My approach is to help people strengthen their capacity to
>>> address
>>> issues, to
>>> foster responsibility by increasing their
>>>>> ability to respond. I hope to do this by broadening their role
>>>>> repertoire through
>>>>> including action, sociodramatic techniques, as part of learning. Most
>>>>> folks don't know
>>>>> how to role reverse, for example; there's a knack to extending the
>>>>> imagination this
>>>>> way.
>>>       I hope to promote the use of role theory as a user-friendly
>>> language for
>>> psychology. The world needs to know how to integrate the best insights
>>> of
>>> psychology and
>>> this is more difficult if there's too much weird jargon.
>>>      Other goals are noted on my website biography. All these are aimed
>>> at strengthening
>>> the infrastructure.
>>> Approaching it from another angle: I think people tend to avoid
>>> thinking
>>> about that which
>>> they cannot think about. Sretching more   than a little bit is
>>> experienced as overloading.
>>> This is true in sports physiology and psychology, too. In psychology,
>>> Vygotsky talks about
>>> learning at what he calls the Zone of Proximal Development. I call it
>>> the
>>> edge. Folks
>>> don't learn beyond that zone or edge-region. We can gradually expand
>>> that
>>> region. (This
>>> also relates to the principle of warming-up, but taken to a broader
>>> perspective.) We can
>>> strengthen the "infra-structure" of skills, knowledge, and attitude.
>>> That's where I see
>>> many of Moreno's contributions having a common denominator.
>>>     Shouting about the urgency of the problem, though, may be
>>> counter-productive. Faced
>>> with the threat of what is experienced by the limbic system as threat,
>>> shame, guilt,
>>> punishment, the mind shuts down.
>>>     So I focus on tiny steps, what can be done. This also partakes of
>>> (of
>>> all people) B.
>>> F. Skinner's principles of operant
>>> conditioning as part of learning theory: Break it down into small
>>> steps,
>>> relatively easy
>>> achievements; and reinforce each step.
>>>      What do you think? Warmly, Adam
>>>
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