writing requirements

Mon Aug 17 09:14:36 CDT 2009

As noted, Zerka continues to require a thesis for certification even  
now although I'm not sure
if  she is still certifying people.
Ed

On Aug 17, 2009, at 10:09 AM, thana ag wrote:

> This requirement for w written thesis  went into effect in 1971 or  
> perhaps 1972, it lasted most definetely  until 1974,though it is  
> worth finding out whether it continued for as long as Zerka was in  
> charge of the Institute in Beacon in Beacon,which I assummed it  
> did..  Sadly ,I can't recall articles in Journal that specified the  
> article was a thesis towards certification in the eighties. I maybe  
> wrong.
> anath
>
> From: ablatner at verizon.net
> To: jenreis at comcast.net
> Subject: writing requirements
> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:23:31 -0500
> CC: list at grouptalkweb.org
>
> As far as I know, at present the Board has no requirements for any  
> written work. This might make for an interesing socio-axiodrama at  
> the conference, or at least a conversation hour. As I said below,  
> the loss of our journal is due more to the dearth of submissions  
> than to the low membership.
>
> Anath mentioned that Zerka used to ask for a thesis for  
> certification. If this is so, it would be useful to dig those up  
> and perhaps polish them up, update them, and post them on some  
> website or, if we ever get around to re-starting a journal,  
> submitting them for consideration.
>
>    Warmly, Adam
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jenreis at comcast.net
> To: thana ag
> Cc: rahima bendjeddou ; colette esmenjaud ; emmanuelle roederer ;  
> adam blatner ; anne shutzenberger ; list at grouptalkweb.org
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Help Tom for TEP requirements
>
> Anath,
> Thanks for sharing that tid bit.  I didn't know that, and I'm not  
> sure if the ABE still requires it.
> Would be nice to find out as we try to relaunch the journal.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen Reis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "thana ag" <anathga at hotmail.com>
> To: "adam blatner" <adam at blatner.com>, "anne shutzenberger"  
> <anne.schutzenberger at wanadoo.fr>, list at grouptalkweb.org
> Cc: "rahima bendjeddou" <rahima.bendjeddou at hotmail.fr>, "colette  
> esmenjaud" <colette.esmenjaud at wanadoo.fr>, "emmanuelle roederer"  
> <emmanuelle.roederer at payotrivages.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:28:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: RE: Help Tom for TEP requirements
>
> Dear Adam,
>   Interestingly ,at the point in time when  I was in  training  in  
> Beacon,a new requirement for graduation was introduced:  a  written  
> a thesis to be submitted or  acceptance  by J.L,which if accepted  
> would be   published in the Journal.  Most thesis needed  extra  
> work to pass Moreno's approval.but once accepted were published .A  
> pity  that requirement was discontinued as it would've   continued  
> to serve as a good   introduction of new PD directors to the  
> community ,plus  a possibility to enrich the literature by new  
> insights/inputs.Were it not for the requirement my article on "the  
> tretment of a stutterer through Psychodrama "would have never saw  
> the light.
> I distinctly remember grumbling about "cultural conserves"  
> required....
> anath
>
> > From: ablatner at verizon.net
> > To: anne.schutzenberger at wanadoo.fr; list at grouptalkweb.org
> > Subject: Re: Help Tom for TEP requirements
> > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:22:08 -0500
> > CC: anne.schutzenberger at wanadoo.fr; rahima.bendjeddou at hotmail.fr;  
> colette.esmenjaud at wanadoo.fr; emmanuelle.roederer at payotrivages.com
> >
> > Dear Anne, which Tom are you addressing? Do you think Tom  
> Treadwell follows grouptalk?
> > I'm not sure--- or is it some other Tom?
> >
> > 2. who are the other people you mention? Are they interested in  
> psychodrama and can they
> > read or write in English?
> >
> > 3. About TEP requirements, the best place to go is to the website  
> of the American Board
> > of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry & Group Psychotherapy  
> website:
> > http://www.psychodramacertification.org/
> > But that's for the American Board.
> > What kinds of certification are used in Europe? Is there yet an  
> international
> > standard?
> >
> > 4. responding to your question: What are now (2009) the  
> requirements to become a
> > recognized TEP : see above and comments below:
> >
> > a. Number of hours, about 780 but see the website...
> >
> > b. small thesis, -- alas, not required
> >
> > c. to direct a session in front of 2TEP, I think this is required.
> >
> > d. write an article of about 10 pages that would be good enough  
> to be accepted in a
> > respected professional journal...
> > Adam's comment: Interestingly, the American Board doesn't require  
> this level of
> > scholarship, which, I think, is a pity, because it is the lack of  
> writing that led the
> > publisher of our journal to drop the journal! The politics of the  
> American Board of
> > Examiners is such--- in our community--- that requiring either a  
> small thesis or an
> > article seems to most American psychodramatists to be too  
> intellectually demanding. If I
> > read the tone correctly when I talk with people at the  
> conferences, many
> > psychodramatists---perhaps most---including many trainers--- 
> consider themselves "do-ers,"
> > involved in acting, and feel intimidated by any demands that they  
> articulate their
> > continuing development in written form.
> > I have suggested that the Board at least offer partial hours/ 
> credit for writing, but
> > so far this hasn't seemed to be politically do-able.
> >
> > Anne S: . . . If my memory is good please answer to me and also  
> to Colette
> > esmanjaud as we would like to have our french program of  
> psychodrame training in Paris at
> > the same level
> >
> > AS. Please do tell me also if there is still a training program for
> > psychodramatist at St Elisabet hospital, Washington DC
> >
> > AB: No, alas, that closed a few years ago and the whole  
> psychodrama section is in a
> > building that is devoted to Homeland Security and so the library  
> there has been made
> > inaccessible for retrieval.
> >
> > Many thanks Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger (90 years old, semi blind  
> but going to present
> > at the Roma IAGP Congress)
> > Dear all, I hope that some of you could answer my query Have a  
> good summer Tout de
> > bon – Best of best Anne (Argentière, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, French  
> Alps)
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Anne Ancelin Schützenberger, PhD, TEP
> > anne.schutzenberger at orange.fr
> > http://www.anneschutzenberger.com
> >
> >
> > AB: And best wishes and great respect for all you've done and  
> continue to do! If any
> > of your colleagues can write or read English, I would like to  
> correspond, even if the
> > English isn't good. I only took French for 1 year in college and  
> je m'oublier tout ma
> > Francais...
> >
> > Warmly, Adam
> >
> >
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