role theory as a many-dimensional psychology

[Adam Blatner]

Hi Connie, (and all),
    In response to your recent comments on this most auspicious of dates (I think 8 is especially auspicious in China, which is why they're opening the Olympics---is it today?)
            Your Souldrama work --- interesting that you call these imagined roles "altered states of consciousness."  Would involvement in any role playing also fit into this category?
          Your noting developmental lines, and how many there are, according to various theorists, was delightful. I'm tempted to harrumph!  When there are so many, perhaps it is misleading to view them in that fashion rather than simply recognizing that almost all roles can be developed from a more, well, under-developed level to a more highly discriminated level; that most roles can be overdone or played in exclusion of others---becoming habitual, fixed, etc. and so forth. 

   I can see that you continue to thicken the theoretical foundations of your work, using different categories used by Jung, Ken Wilber, and others. 

             By the way, you included a copy to Transpessoal at yahoogroups.com
                   Does this overlap with Al Pesso's Psychomotor therapy? Are you aware of Georgia Riggs' and Jack Shupe's work with this approach? (They presented on its overlap with psychodrama at the ASGPP conference in San Antonio last April.)  What do you know about that approach? (Just to network y'all and wonder if there are other folks on Grouptalk who know about this method. I've known about it and mentioned it even in my first Acting-In in 1973 and before.) 

          Warmly, Adam
  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Connie Miller 
  Cc: Transpessoal at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 6:12 AM
  Subject: [SPAM] Re: Patricia, do tell more about Janet and how you use it forpsychodrama (Anne)L


   Dear Patty and Neil,  

                    Thank you for bringing Janets work into awareness.  The work that I have been doing on souldrama takes people through seven altered states of consciousness by passing through
            through seven doorways and the work of Janets fits in very nicely as one moves through the levels of emotional level of intelligence using Morenos work.   There have been many formulations   
            of stages    in the development of consciousness that people encounter and inhabit as they develop. These states are obviously to be viewed as energetic levels of activation of conscious awareness,
           constantly shifting. 
            We can look at the general format of the organization of these states on Maslow's (1943, 1954, 1968, 1971) Hierarchy of Needs  
  Anna Freud (1965) proposed the concept of developmental lines? to explain how pathology can result from a failure in normal human development in one or more areas of growth, using developmental lines to chart the emergence of a specific developmental potential through a sequence of stages of growth. For example, there is a separate line of development for the consolidation of a sense of self (Kohut, 1971),for affect (Brown, 1985), and for the defenses (Vaillant, 1977). Ken Wilber(2000) believes that there are roughly two dozen developmental lines: ?morals, affects,self-identity, psychosexuality, cognition, ideas of the good, role taking,socio-emotional capacity, creativity, altruism, several lines that can be called ?spiritual? (care, openness, concern, religious faith, meditative stages), joy, 

  The doorways of Souldrama can be a method to enter transpersonal experience. The first and second doorways represent the rational intelligence, the third and fourth doorways represent the emotional intelligence and the fifth and sixth represent the spiritual intelligence. Door seven is where all three intelligences are integrated. The doorways offer symbolic rites of passage and structure . The rationale for souldrama is that one needs to align their ego and soul to be on their higher purpose and gives us a structured action method to do so using psychodrama and sociometry in each doorway. This includes Carl Jung's theory of individuation that states that the individual strives to become whole and distinctive from the collective (Jung, 1933; Jung & von Franz, 1964). In order for an individual to realize their specific purpose, connection with one's unique self must be achieved (Eddinger, 1972; Harding, 1965). In this context, self is the whole of the individual, including all aspects of an individual's conscious and unconscious, often referred to as a paradoxical union of opposites (Harding, 1965). The Self is superior to the ego and is experienced as the center of the personality (Jung, 1933). If individuals become conscious of their whole personality, the self, they can become great spiritual leaders by becoming aware of their higher purposes and potential capabilities. 

  Blessings Connie
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