psychodrama's mission

[Peter Howie]

Hi again Adam,

This is great. I look forward to reading your articles as well. 
Thanks for doing the work and putting it out there. One area that I 
am not sure you got me is the role response one.

>    PH  And sometimes I notice, though less and less at the moment, 
> a cringe factor in me - to the word psychodrama - so I wonder 
> whether I have been creating a role response in others rather than 
> them having the response to start with.
>        AB: Still, it might be instructive to bring that cringe 
> factor to the surface and examine its components. Some might be 
> more rationally or politically valid and some might involve more 
> personal issues.

Yes it would be worthwhile to examine the cringe factor - that would 
be good for me and at the moment I imagine it would reveal things 
about my self-esteem, my confidence in my ideas, my reluctance to 
join a group, my ridiculous need to have others immediately and 
completely accept me, my ideas and my worldview as the one and only, 
etc, etc. Damn - a few psychodramas there.

However the aspect I want to focus on is whether or not I am creating 
a negative response in another person by my own fear/angst/worry 
about the term. The idea being that another person is responding not 
to any words that I may be using per se, but more they are responding 
to the role I might be in. Perhaps I warm up to being a worried and 
tentative proselytiser - sort of like an unconfident Florence 
Nightingale - Imagine if Flowrence Nightingale had been tentative? 
Others respond as wary critics perhaps. Maybe a TA person would 
suggest I warm up to a child role and that can warm others up to a 
parent role - not that great on TA.

As I write this I wonder how much of this negative response I have 
actually had from other people. I mean I really wonder. I mean 
imagine having to talk about gestalt or RET or systems theory - 
everything is weird. I guess I am working out that it is more about 
my role than it is about the content. However I am still learning to 
appreciate the content - i.e. the word psychodrama and the other we use.

Cheers again

Peter Howie
Brisbane, Australia

    
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