"Social Intelligence" & Empathy training

[Steven Gordon]

Gloria and all:

I have been reading Goleman's new book "Social Intelligence," and  
find it be a remarkable book that addresses many psychodrama theories  
from a neurologic perspective such as "tele" -- see the chapter on  
rapport and the value of role playing and mirroring -- see the  
discussion of Stanislavski's method at pg. 57 (in the chapter  
entitled "An Instinct for Altruism.").

For me, this book is one of the best reads since a "General Theory of  
Love."

Interestingly, Goleman does not mention Moreno or psychodrama.   
Notably, Zerka does use the term "social intelligence" in her article  
on Tele in the "Quintessential Zerka" at pg. 292.  Zerka remarks that  
tele is a form of "social intelligence."

I would be interesting in hearing what others in the psychodrama  
community think of Goleman's new book.

On Feb 4, 2007, at 6:58 PM, georgia rigg wrote:

> Check out the material Goleman has included in his
> recent "Social Intelligence" book--he has considerable
> information on mirror neurons and sociopaths.  Georgia
> Rigg
> --- John <John6528 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> do a search on mirror neurons and psychopathic
>> personality. There is
>> very recent research about this.
>>
>> John Gessner
>>
>> Adam Blatner wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Grouptalk Colleagues, I received an email
>> from  Jim Catlin (
>>> jcatlin at discover-net.net
>> <mailto:jcatlin at discover-net.net>  ) who
>>> writes: I'm a psychotherapist from Wisconsin and I
>> am seeing an Asian
>>> gentleman (from a male-dominant culture) on an
>> outpatient basis who
>>> committed a horrific crime almost 10 years ago.
>> He was found not
>>> guilty by reason of mental defect and was recently
>> released from one
>>> of our state mental institutions.  Psychiatrists
>> and other mental
>>> health professionals who have worked w/him all the
>> way back to his
>>> crime believe that he has little or no capacity
>> for empathy; he's
>>> informally diagnosed with Narc Pers Dis.  One of
>> the goals I have set
>>> for myself (and him) is to find ways to "teach"
>> him empathy, to have
>>> him behave in empathic ways, and ultimately become
>> empathic himself,
>>> to whatever degree we can get to. I read your
>> online article on
>>> teaching empathy and it has given me some solid
>> basic ideas/approaches
>>> I can use use w/him, plus several areas I can
>> further research for
>>> materials/resources.  Do you know of any other
>> curricula, tools,
>>> or resources that exist for teaching adults to
>> become empathic?  I'm
>>> wondering if anyone has put together a sort of
>> treatment curriculum
>>> (like with sex offender programs) that is
>> effective in the
>>> empathy-building area.  tks, Jim
>>>          ... and Jim gave me permission to forward
>> this to y'all... to
>>> write him if you have ideas.
>>>
>>
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