encyclopedia articles on psychodrama

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Rebecca, a clue to the paper is the last item in the bibliography: 
 Zimberoff, D., & Hartman, D. (1999). Heart-centered energetic psychodrama. Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies, 2(1), 77-98. 
       These are non-certified people who integrate also hypnosis and other ideas with their mixture of approaches. They put out  journal. They're in the Seattle area. 
        Your statement:  My take on it is that it has a lot of good stuff, but there are several erroneous statements. Whatcha all think?
         ... ab: ... reminds me of the lines of the Hollywood actor who says, "I don't care what you call me, just call me."

     Sometimes it's nice to have your approach noticed, recognized, described, and varying degrees of inaccuracy are ignored. Sometimes we want to address those inaccuracies, get a bit technical, pedantic.

    Speaking for myself, sometimes I want to correct what i consider to be misunderstandings, inaccuracies, but there is a boundary area where I wonder, "How many of my respected colleagues might go along with this description rather than the way I think it should be?"

      This is why I wish somehow for there to be more consensus: A quasi-judicial process---not with legal binding or coercive authority (maybe), but more-- just can we find 5 relative leaders or acknowledged authorities who feel no obligation to agree with each other in order to maintain tele or group cohesion, who can dispassionately say "I agree" or I disagree, and work out how and what... to address a goodly number of fuzzy areas within our field. 

        I imagine using the forum, for example, with at least five TEPs committed to checking once a month, and commenting on questions brought up, under the section titled, "Seeking Consensus" or "Theoretical Considerations" or something. We'd need at least five, and welcome more. But there would need to be a feeling that if I were to put out my 2 cents worth, four others would also add 2 cents and we'd get a shiny dime, a provisional position statement. This could serve to firm up our professional identity.

     We'd be open to a reasoned or articulate disagreement, but not an objection at the level of "Well, that's not how I see it," or "That's just not my style." Such responses are pre-rational and confuse those moments of validly working with intution with a claim that irrationality is an okay general policy. 

      So that's my preliminary response. I didn't read the article carefully. I fear I would write a commentary that might be viewed as excessively pedantic. But I did glance near the start, in the first few lines, at phrases that I don't agree with---even though the author(s) cite my books several times in the piece. 

       Warmly, Adam
  Rebecca

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