writing up papers

[T. Treadwell]

Rebecca:
this may be true for most persons in this community.  We have a journal
but very few folks contribute - yet - if one needs to reach out to other
disciplines, experiential, drama, social work, then many do not subscribe
to the JGPPS.

My position, and many others, seem fall into various categories:

Group related - then there are other journals that can spread your findings.
Cohesion related - same
psychodramatic techniques - our journal jgpps
sociometry - there are other sociometric journals - yet sociometry is
broad and if it relates to the social atom, for example, then jgpps is the
best.  However, relating to greater sociometric audiences, i.e. facebook,
other journals may be a better  target.
special issues devoting specific methodolgies to psychodrama - best is jgpps.

I submitted a chapter on CBT & Pdrama - it goes into a book - in press.

I think the difficulty is that many asgpp practitioners are focusing on
pdramatic techniques -- but they do not write of talk about there
experiences.  This is what we need for our journal.  My hunch is that what
you do would be a perfect fit - we need more of the same.

as an aside -- there is a special issue coming out in the near future on
substance abuse and how pdrma practitioner handle the complexities. 
Interesting issue.

look forward to you submitting manuscripts.

tom


> One of the challenges I have in writing is trying to decide who my
> audience
> is. Other psychodramatists, therapists who have no psychodrama experience,
> creative arts therapists.
> The other challenge has always been time but!!! I am giving up two days a
> week at the hospital where I work, and am hoping to begin writing in the
> new
> year. I am writing it here as a sign of my commitment.
>   This is not an invitation to nudge me, Adam!!!!:-)
> Rebecca
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>
> To: "Peter Howie" <peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au>;
> <list at grouptalkweb.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:53 PM
> Subject: writing up papers
>
>
>> Dear Peter, thanks for your feedback. I was intrigued with your final
>> paragraph: PH: "I
>> think writers revert to the stage of the double and really need some
>> decent effective
>> doubling type assistance to overcome some of this early stuff which saps
>> conviction,
>> undermines knowingness and confidence and bring up fears and worries."
>>
>>      So, in the role of an editor, what specifically would you do? Or
>> how
>> would you teach
>> consulting editors how to respond to submitted papers?
>>
>>      I sent in a previous response to listserve about how I imagine
>> editing---the idea of
>> running a paper by someone as a preliminary, getting feedback and using
>> it
>> to revise...
>> but no one responded to me.
>>      There's two sides to this dance. Even if the editors were
>> optimally,
>> perfectly
>> encouraging, there's still a gap of time and space---rather than my
>> direct
>> physical
>> presence--- so that the writer of the paper can lapse into the illusion
>> /
>> delusion that it
>> doesn't matter, no one cares, and other rationalizations for a basic
>> unwillingness to get
>> back into the writing and revising process. Could that be happening?
>>
>>       And maybe it's a dance that includes people being encouraged
>> repeatedly, warmed up,
>> as it were, to the challenge of wrestling, knowing that it will be drawn
>> forward. There's
>> work, and then after the review, more work, but it's also worthwhile.
>>
>> What do you think?  Or others?
>>
>>          Warmly, Adam
>>
>>
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