"curve" of psychodrama

[Adam Blatner]

Yes, Martin Haskell's little blue book pamphlet--- and also an orange one on socioanalysis (ie.sociometry)... published in 1967, but I didn't encounter them until I think 1969. This is how the field was fragmented. I could have used his help.
    He incorporated much of that into his book on socioanalysis in 1975. 

   The first edition of my book was grey, the next edition I was already revising, soon after I went to England with the Air Force--that was more tan-beige, and the name was changed (1970). Then I revised it again in '71 and then re-wrote it completely in my own words. 

   warmly, adam
     
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: BARNETT WEISS 
  To: Adam Blatner 
  Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:23 PM
  Subject: Re: "curve" of psychodrama


  Dear Adam:
  What about Martin's little blue book pamphlets which were available at that time as well. I seem to remember getting your stuff before 1973. Yours was much more thorough than anyones up to that date as you say, even in comparison to what Moreno had written probably as you say because of their reluctance to let go of control. So, before yours and to some extent Martin's there was nothing which was systematically set down for people to use as a text book for teaching so to speak.  Maybe it was the prepublication book that you sent to Bonnie and I. I still have it somewhere in a light brown cover size about 8 1/2 by 11 paper. 
  Blessings, Bud

  Adam Blatner <adam at blatner.com> wrote:
    Hi Bill:  

    Hollander, Carl E. (1969). A Process for Psychodrama Training: The Hollander Psychodrama Curve. Denver, CO: Snow Lion Press.

    and also:  

    a more rudimentary suggestion of the curve may be found on pg. 49 of my 1968 syllabus:

    Seabourne, Barbara (@1963; 1968). The role of the auxiliary (pg 49). In H. Blatner (Adam before he changed his name) (Editor), Practical Aspects of Psychodrama: a syllabus. Belmont, CA: Author. 

           Learning about psychodrama, I wrote to everyone I could find. Back then, that was quite a detective process, as Moreno didn't loosen his grip on addresses, so there were no directories. Indeed, my first edition of Acting In in 1973 was the first source for people actually discovering whom to contact and where to contact them for further training! Anyway, Barbara Seabourne generously shared her materials. She had been working with Leon Fine in St. Louis back around 1963 and wrote some practical papers---indeed, at the time, these were the most how-to-do-it materials I had yet found!  That's why I put together these papers, references, etc.---because you couldn't get much of an idea of how to do it from Moreno's books, and only superficially from Zerka's articles on rules, etc.

       warmly, ADam        

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: William H. Wysong 
      To: Adam Blatner 
      Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:59 PM
      Subject: Re: moreno history

       You stated in Acting-In that a psychodrama could be visualized by a curve as presented by Barbara Seaborne and Carl Hollander.  What documentation do you have that this was a concept of Barbara Seaborne?  
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