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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">Some time ago I
placed the following request on Group Talk:</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>In trying to go
beyond general praise, I would like to collect a series of
simple<x-tab> </x-tab>statements
by Group Talkers of what drew you into and holds you in this field.
What of Moreno's creation(s) has grabbed you or seemed right. I am
asking you to send your statement(s) to me directly rather than
to Group Talk so that the<x-tab> </x-tab>sentences
will be independent of each other. After a month or so I will put the
summary online and, unless you ask me to withhold your sentence or
your name, I will put the individual contributions online, also. Send
to: <</b></font><font face="Bank Gothic"
color="#000099"><u><b>jmsacks@mindspring.com</b></u></font><font
face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>>.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000"><br>
I want to withdraw the offer to put all the replies on line because
some of the replies were so personal that I am reluctant to offer only
an opt-out rather than the opt-in alternative. In other words, I will
put up on Group Talk only those replies only if the writer asks me to
do so.<br>
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Secondly, I became aware of a stimulus/response ambiguity. I had
intended to try to find out what there was about the Moreno
contributions that had so affected the repliers. This might have
involved some aspect of a psychodrama session(s), some particular
passage in Moreno's writings or some secondary source or a Moreno
influenced classroom experience, in other words, what were the
essential characteristics of the stimulus which so greatly affected
their life's work. Many of the replies did exactly that. There were
others, however, which were quite articulate and honest about their
response to the Morenian input but little or nothing about exactly
what was so powerful that it set off the response that it did. Asked
again, these repliers may be able to fill us in on this important
point since they are the very people who should know best.<br>
<br>
Most of the replies fitted into discrete categories. I will try to
summarize them. Some of the quotes are not verbatim quotes but
paraphrases in which I condensed from several similar
replies. </font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">There were those
which clustered around the role-playing aspect of
psychodrama:</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"As soon as one
assumes the role of another or, even of one's self, and the
role<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>
is not a live action but only 'pretend', there a great surge in
expressivity,<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>spontaneity and pleasure."</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic"
color="#000000"><b><x-tab>
</x-tab></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"Psychodrama
provides a fail-safe laboratory. The context of play acts as
a<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>lubricant for the process.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"Ability to enter
into a situation with another and therefore able provide comfort and
companionship."</b></font></div>
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color="#FF6666"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">There were many
repliers who were affected greatly by the action aspect of Morenian
therapy.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"Because it is
action oriented the non-verbal communication becomes
visible"</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic"
color="#000000"><b><x-tab>
</x-tab></b></font><br>
<font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"Action breaks
through the distancing maneuvers in mere talking
about."</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="+3"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">Some of the replies
stressed the importance of learning by doing.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"To 'do' is to
learn".<x-tab> </x-tab></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"Learning by doing
recognizes what needs to be done.</b></font><font face="Helvetica"
size="+2" color="#000000">"</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">For others it was
sociometry that most entranced them.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"Failures in mental
health is laid bare in relationships both in reality as measured by
sociometry and in fantasy as enacted in psychodrama
performance"</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic"
color="#000000"><b><x-tab>
</x-tab><br>
"Sociometry is a brilliant way of seeing quickly what is really
important in<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>interpersonal life"</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">There were also
responses which drew by Moreno's metaphysical theories</font><font
face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">.<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"The centrality
of the concepts and Godhead and Spirituality"</b></font><font
face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">.</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">Some responses
common to group therapy in general.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b>"The sense of
trust that develops in a therapy group."</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">Finally, there were
the experienced group therapist responses.<br>
</font><font face="Bank Gothic" color="#000000"><b><x-tab>
</x-tab><br>
"It fits well with other therapy models"</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#000000">I was truly
surprised by the variety of the impressions. I assumed that what
appealed to me was more or less what struck everyone right away. But,
no; they were extremely diverse. There was evidently a good reason
that this kind of therapy was not developed long before Moreno came
onto the scene. Evidently it required a polymath, someone who makes
contributions in many areas in one lifetime, to be acceptable to many
different people for many different reasons. Consider Moreno: group
therapy, psychodrama, sociometry, theology, sound-recording, theater
architecture, theology, cosmology and perhaps Zerka can tell us about
others.</font></div>
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