Regarding Ann Hale's question about the AAI

Tue Apr 7 02:16:08 CDT 2009

Dear Ann and Clark and others
Just to add to the mix re attachment theory and psychodrama...(and possibly
you are already very aware of this Ann given your regular sojourns down to
the antipodes!) 

In Australia, Patricia O¹Rourke  a psychodramatist and child
psychotherapist based in Adelaide, South Australia has written her ANZPA
psychodrama thesis ³Working with the Warm Up. The application of infant
mental health principles and the psychodrama method². She has made a précis
of the literature review of this thesis in the 2006 ANZPA Journal.

O¹Rourke, P. (2006) Integrating Infant mental Health and Psychodrama
Perspectives. Australia & New Zealand Psychodrama Association Journal, 15.

She draws on the work of Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth,
Daniel Stern, and Jacob Moreno amongst others to provide psychodramatists
with key thinking from the infant mental health field and attachment theory,
and to detail ways in which psychodrama methods can assist the primary
attachment relationship in mother-infant work resulting in the enhancement
of functioning across the lifespan.

With reference to Moreno¹s work she points us particularly toward the theory
of spontaneity and warm up,  the spontaneity theory of child development,
social atom repair and tele.

I can see much benefit in considering supervision and the coaching-training
of directors of psychodrama informed by these principles and theoretical
ideas. 
I look forward to more presentation of your work Clark in this area. Sounds
great. Thanks too for the link to Pat Crittenden¹s website also.
When I was first introduced and trained in attachment I couldn¹t help but
see these major bridges to psychodramatic cornerstones and training.

Best wishes 
Martin Putt
Auckland, NZ

On 7/04/09 2:27 AM, "Ann Hale" <annehale at swva.net> wrote:

> This is exciting, and I am sure there are more of you out there because the
> AAI makes such sense, and can be so helpful in doing what we do as
> psychodramatists and what Daniel Siegel calls "seeing  into the other person's
> mind"  (and not just cognitively, but making a connection with the totality of
> our being) . I imagine how having this theoretical frame and the competence in
> its use could expand the doubling capacities in certain phases of making our
> connection with whomever, client, trainee, co-leader, supervisor, etc.  There
> is a training going on in July in London, Ontario...I sure would like to be
> there.   Please, I would enjoy exchanging ideas and stories, and will read the
> articles from the Family Relations Institute to get further up to speed.
> Thank you so much for your reply. Ann Hale  annehale at swva.net
> www.sociometry.net <http://www.sociometry.net>
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>> In response to Ann Hale's question about the Adult Attachment  Interview:
>> Ann, I have trained in the use of the Adult Attachment Interview,  and see it
>> as very useful in gaining insight into treatment issues as well as  helping
>> to identify troubling relationships and even scenes to go to in  psychodrama.
>> The underlying theory is also useful in helping to identify  attachment
>> insecurity and what might signal progress / 'reorganisation' for  clients.
>> Myself and Susie Taylor co-run the Birmingham Institute of  Psychodrama in
>> the UK, and we use attachment theory as an underpinning theory  in our
>> training, as a useful complement to Morenean concepts and role theory.  I
>> plan to go a lot further in my work joining together attachment theory, the
>> AAI, and psychodrama. It would be great to exchange ideas with you. I should
>> also mention that Chip Chimera and Paul Holmes here in the UK have also
>> studied in the same model of attachment as I have - the Dynamic Maturational
>> Model of attachment across the lifespan (cf: Dr. P M Crittenden, a former
>> student of Mary Ainsworth's. She has her own website, highly recommended:
>> www.patcrittenden.com <http://www.patcrittenden.com> ). Thanks  for opening
>> up this as a question. Best regards, Clark Baim, Senior  Trainer in the UK.
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MARTIN PUTT

Therapy Practice
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Grey Lynn
AUCKLAND 1021

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