sociatry

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Ed,
   1. The world is in big trouble. I acknowledge your alarm.
         I wish you well in your workshop.
   2. The vision of sociatry is one I agree with. Iatros---physician. Socios-- the 
soci-economic-political system.  How to treat the illness of society.
         Other than the invitation that we consider how we can use psychology, sociometry, 
and other concepts to help--- and I agree that its worthwhile to consider such 
approaches--- 
         I await more specific formulations and suggestions. Glad that you're doing the 
research.

     3. as an amateur student of the history of medicine, though, it turns out that 
illness is a broad category with hundreds of general types of illness with thousands of 
different kinds of actual factors-- 
        and thousands of ways these generate different kinds of illness

       There was a time when all illness was thought of as a simple imbalance of four 
humors..
           but we know now that it's far, far more complex.

    I see no reason why our socio-economic-political issues are any less complex than our 
medical illnesses.

    Nor do I have any intuitions that Moreno's contributions---as valuable as I consider 
them to be---constitute more than a tiny fraction of all they types of interventions that 
could usefully be made.
          Of course, I do hope we can help disseminate these various contributions and 
help them be applied.

     What do you think?  Warmly, Adam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward Schreiber" <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: Dear Colleagues


> Dear Colleagues,
>
> For some years now I have made comments, sometimes expressing my
> discomfort with the world and my concern for addressing the world in
> a new way and fully rooted in our method.
>
> I have struggled with trying to find the right documents in which
> Moreno's social vision, the sociatric meaning of his method, and the
> full measure of his vision, documents in which Moreno's sociatric
> theories might be teased out into a form all their own; attempting to
> find anything that reflects a Morenean point of view.  For me that
> means finding formulas by which his view can be understood in simple
> terms: as sociatric instruments. We see the movement forward
> everywhere in a new wave of Morenean technology for the 21st
> Century:in Jacob's book, Tian, Kate, Adam, the work in the British
> and Australian centers.  I remember a series of email exchanges here
> from Australia in which Moreno was being called a revolutionary of
> creativity.  I liked that a lot!
>
> We are finishing a major phase of this research, and we can feel
> fairly certain that we have found a few documents we believe will
> prove some light on our way forward with sociatry, if that is what we
> wish do do. For example, one document describes us as "world
> therapists" and darn, that is how I see our work.
>
> I am not so comfortable talking about this informally.  I prefer a
> presentation within an informal setting.  So I am inviting you to
> come to Rowe to meet Derrick Jensen and to share in our unfolding of
> sociatry.   This is a long unfolding, done with all of us together,
> who want to cooperate to find a solution to the world crisis - our
> solution - sociometry - group structures - internal and hidden
> structures operating below the level of the formal organizational
> structures - impacting all of humanity and the earth itself.  For me
> it is an honor to work with Derrick, who is the philosopher poet of
> the environmental movement.  He is difficult, be warned!  Derrick is
> uncompromising in showing a mirror of the world that is difficult to
> see.  It is the mirror of the natural world showing itself, in his
> poetry and his prose.  His work is that of a master story teller, a
> stand up comic, a performance artist and an author. He has been
> called one of the "100 Truth Tellers of America".
>
> When psychodrama combines with environmentalism, this can happen:
> the world can talk to us through surplus reality. The polar bears can
> join us in our room and on the stage! The oceans can speak to us, as
> can the rivers, streams, fading forests, dying seas. And so can hope
> talk to us.
>
> Welcome 2008 as we approach 2012, for whatever that may mean or not
> mean.  What we do know so far is that ABC News reported the science
> from Indonesian Conference on Global Climate Change reporting
> nationally that if 2007 summer is any indication of things to come,
> there may no l ice in the summer in the Arctic by 2012.  What else do
> we know?  We know for sure: that we don't know the implications of no
> ice and what that will be for the entire ecology of the earth.  This
> much we know:  we don't know but there are some projections of
> droughts, flooding from rising seas, more extreme changes.  Every
> time scientists offer a projection based upon computer readouts, the
> projections soon prove to be false because, and this is the issue,
> things seem to be happening more quickly than the computer
> projections suggest.  I know, I know, some of our friends will call
> me an urgent alarmist.  Well, it seems kind of urgent to me and I
> hear some element of alarm.  After all, what might happen if more
> bees die off?  Moreno's understanding of the forces of society seem,
> well, critical. Moreno's theories about sociatry can be helpful for
> the whole of mankind. Sounds like so much fun.
>
> We will be sharing this in San Antonio and at the Grenada Conference
> in May. Time to share.
> Best,
> Ed
>
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