selfexpress2

[HV Psychodrama]

It is late and I am too tired to respond...but before I go off to sleep let 
me say that this has been a most stimulating conversation and I really am 
enjoying this level of communication.
Love to all,
Rebecca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erica Hollander" <ericahollander at comcast.net>
To: "Blatner Adam" <adam at blatner.com>; <list at grouptalkweb.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: selfexpress2


> So, Adam, are you saying that there is some other thing you work
> toward in psychodrama, not self expression?  Or are you saying there
> is no such thing at all and that psychodrama or other therapy is not
> aimed at any one thing but shifts depending on what the therapist
> perceives is needed?  And what constrains that, then?  That might
> bring us back to Rosalie's idea that transference may play a role in
> what gets expressed and what does not get expressed, I guess, among
> other things.
>
> Closer, but still an open question to me.  I recall after Carl's
> death that painting seemed like a lifeline to me, even though I had
> not done it at all before.  When I researched survivors of the loss
> of a loved one to suicide, I found that support groups for such
> survivors were tremendously important to them, some members
> continuing for many years in the groups.  Clearly they were
> communicating their experiences to one another, and getting returns
> for that.  It seemed to me that the members were forging new
> identities for  themselves which incorporated the tragedies which
> they had lived through.  Maybe I was painting to create a new
> identity piece for myself, too, though I am not sure I see that.
> erica
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