sociodrama

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Colleagues---especially those who might be interested in sociodrama---Goyo asked me to share this correspondence with you and invites your input, feedback, networking, suggestions, etc.

     So: original email from:  GREGORIO ARMAÑANZAS  To: 'Adam Blatner' Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 
Dear Adam, I always go to you when I need some contact or bibliography. Last time was about training muses in make psychodrama groups. Your information's helped to me. Thank you.  
    My present need comes from an experience that I had in Guernica (Spain). There, there is an organization working for peace. I assisted to a workshop organised below the title of "Arte and Peace". Three professionals coming from the theatre coordinated the workshop. They are from Austria, United Kingdom and Israel. They titled its interventions as a kind of theatre of the oppressed. I felt fascinated noticing that what they made, was so similar to our psychodrama and sociodrama. I wrote an e-mail stimulating them to approach to sociodrama. Some of them have answered asking for books about sociodrama. Could you recommend me some? 
   I give this so long explanation because I know about your interest about how psychodrama and sociodrama is been implemented. 
    Do you know sociodramatists in Vienna, Israel and UK (Wales)?
         Warmly,            Goyo     
   Dr. Gregorio Armañanzas Ros
C/Esquíroz 4 1ºB 31007 Pamplona (Navarra) España
Telf: 34 948 170614 Fax: 34 948 276301
E-mail: gar at gogestion.com

.... and Adam's response 14 November: Hello, Goyo, Your email is important. Peter Felix (Natan) Kellermann in Israel has written about sociodrama--- an article. When you ask if I know some folks, I am tempted to ask the wider community what they have been doing more recently. 
   The classic book by Sternberg & Garcia is noted on my website list of psychodrama books---"Who's in your shoes."
    I find the TO people (confidentially) giving allegiance to Boal's claim that his work is not psychodrama. I don't know how much Boal has bothered to really learn about sociodrama--- I suspect a degree of pride here. 
    I agree with your perception that there is room for mutual learning and influence between TO work and sociodrama, and even a bit with psychodrama. 
     May I pass along your request to the grouptalk and also IAGP-PD listserves?  (He agreed, so here it is)
  Adam Blatner, M.D.
   website: www.blatner.com/adam/   
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