Functions (Sub-roles) of the Psychodrama Director - SeekingInformation/Citation

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Thank you so much, Chip and Jaime, for your helpful responses.  Hope you
both are well and in good spirits.  Hi, Adam too!

Cathy

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From: Chip Chimera chipchimera at btinternet.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:02:00 +0100
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The 4 roles were an absolutely full and fundamental part of my psychodrama
training!  Kellerman, P.F, (1992) Focus on Psychodrama: the Therapeutic
Aspects of Psychodrama, London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.  I have
found this so helpful both in my training as a psychodramatist and as an
adapted version in training family therapists.  Page 46 table 3.1. the 4
roles: analyst, producer, therapist and group leader.  Each with their own
functions, skills and ideals.  Elegant. Hope this is helpful. 

 

Chip

 

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Hi Cathy,
 
Peter Kellermann wrote an excellent piece on the role of the director:
 
Title: The Psychodramatist
Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry; Summer 1992, Vol.
45, Issue 2, pg. 74

Hope this helps!
 
Jaime



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From: CathyNugent at comcast.net
To: adam at blatner.com; list at grouptalkweb.org
Subject: Functions (Sub-roles) of the Psychodrama Director - Seeking
Information/Citation
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:51:40 +0000
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Hello, Psychodrama Colleagues - 

 

Thank you for the thoughtful discussions that occur on this listserv.
Although I rarely weigh in, I read the dialogue regularly, and I find the
discussions very stimulating and helpful to my ongoing work as a
psychodramatist and PAT.  

 

I am writing at this time with a request for help:  I am planning a training
session on directing skills, and, among other things, I'd like to offer the
trainees a conceptual framework on the director role.  From my training with
Doug Warner many years ago, I vaguely recall  learning that J.L. (or maybe
Zerka?) delineated some number of (maybe 3-5?) "functions" or sub-roles of
the psychodrama director.  My memory on this is not good, and I cannot find
the reference (although I think it is one of the Psychodrama Volumes).  

 

I have a vague recollection that these "functions" or "sub-roles" include:

 

Analyst/Therapist - The director brings his or her knowledge of personality,
psychopathology, human growth and development, and appropriate interventions
to the director role to help shape and guide the action toward the
protagonist's goals

 

Director (or maybe Producer?) - The director uses knowledge of staging,
dramaturgy, as well as his/her aesthetic sensibilities, to produce a
coherent and aesthetically pleasing drama.

 

Sociometrist (?) - The director relies on her/his knowledge of sociometry to
promote connections between and among group members, to select a protagonist
or protagonists, to guide the enactment of transferential relationships in
dramatic enactments and/ through encounters. 

 

Social Investigator (?) - The director probes the social world of the
protagonist to elicit clues for action and direction the drama should take
(?)

 

I think there may be one or two additional functions, but I am not sure.

 

Can anyone help by indicating whether the above functions/sub-roles (what
did Moreno call them?) are those identified by Moreno and if my descriptions
are substantially accurate?  Are there others I have missed here?  Have I
made some up?  Finally, if anyone knows where I could find this information
in a primary source, I could then go to the text for further information.
Thank you so much for any help! 

 

I hope this message finds everyone well and in good spirits!

 

Best wishes,

 

Cathy Nugent

Laurel, Maryland

 

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From: "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net> 

Dear Colleagues, 

      My poor percolating brain has been chewing on a number of issues. 

          1. Belonging-ness: Posted on webpage:
http://www.blatner.com/adam/psyntbk/belongingness.html   This essay also
touches indirectly on issues related to sociometry, though I felt that for a
number of audiences the introduction of that word would be a distraction. In
another paper, perhaps, I'll relate this paper to the sociometric
implications.  

 

        2. Paradigm Shift: My intuition is that we are in the midst of
several fundamental shifts of world-view. One is the developing of more
complex forms of self-reflective thinking: Written about on
http://www.blatner.com/adam/consctransf/paradigmshiftmtcog.html   

 

         I'm working on essays on two other paradigm shifts---maybe three---
and would be more than interested in your ideas. The question is not just
what new ideas are becoming more influential, but whole complexes of ideas
involving many cultural institutions. What represents a way of thinking that
was almost unheard of fifty years ago, and/or was vaguely disreputable. (A
friend noted that a new idea begins as heresy and ends as superstition! ;-) 

 

       Warmly, Adam Blatner, M.D.
   website: www.blatner.com/adam/   

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