<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Here is a very interesting piece from Scientific American.</div><div><br></div><div>I am pretty sure that this research relates strongly to the work we do in psychodrama groups. The work we do is at the opposite end of complexity to what is being demonstrated in this research but we may nevertheless meet in the middle at some distant future time. The difficulty with our methods are that they are not easy to do quantitative experiments with because the huge number of confounding variables that should be accounted for. Thus a lot of outcomes measures get used - such as "does it work?" "What does a successful outcome look like and how is it measured" "Is it better than nothing" or "Is it better than this or that therapy or approach". It requires real ingenuity and creativity to develop research proposals that don't work at either end of this complexity spectrum and cast light onto our methods and perhaps extend the theories or develop new theories on the matter.</div><div>Cheers for now</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-erase-fear-in-humans&sc=CAT_MB_20100324">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-erase-fear-in-humans&sc=CAT_MB_20100324</a></div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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