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[georgia rigg]

Erica, Adam, Rebecca and all interested in this
material.  First of all, go back to the early 2000s or
so, and remember Lewis, et al, and The General Theory
of Love.  One of the things I loved about that book
was that it made the functions of different parts of
the brain understandable for me, and it fit perfectly
with the model I'm developing of the blend of
psychodrama and psychomotor therapy.  In psychomotor
therapy, the protagonist does have the full attention
of the group, and any expression of self is witnessed
and "accomodated" by the full group and auxiliaries in
special roles.  I'm presenting this process to as many
audiences as I can find, and the results are the same.
 The person is more "Self" after this experience--some
part of the brain definitely registers this experience
as satisfying in a very deep and real way.  I have
also helped folks with chronic pain with this
approach, and again, the results are impressive. 
There is also something deeply satisfying for the
members of the group in the process--the sociometry
changes in a very real way without words.  There must
be a "gene" in us, wired for self-expression.  My
colleague, Jack Shupe, can talk the sociometry more
eloquently than I can.  Why are any of us in this
work?  Some part of us, Self, is also satisfied by
witnessing, midwifing, whatever--the changes that can
happen in one group's experience.  Isn't this how we
are hoping to change all of mankind?  And yes, Adam,
I'm outining the article!  Warmly to all, Georgia Rigg
--- Erica Hollander <ericahollander at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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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