Sociometry Training

[Peter Howie]

Hi all,

I am working up a short term curriculum at present and thought I would  
try and clarify this area of work if anyone is up for a challenge. And  
if it is so old hat and has been covered to death please point me in  
the right direction.

If the social atom is indeed the smallest unit that we can work with -  
either from a practical or theoretical point of view, then I think it  
stands to reason that transference and counter transference are never  
entirely or even mostly arising from an individuated personality but  
are a product of the larger social atom.

When I think like this I am greatly relieved from having to  
distinguish transference from simply having an idea about someone. I  
find that if transference is at work at all, then it seems as if it is  
at work at all times and it is simply a matter of degree (how much is  
a transference from another experience) or degree of importance (how  
much it interferes with current relationships) as to whether or not to  
work with it. One thing I find hard with the idea of transference is  
that it seems very like some of the early template models of the way  
the brain/mind work. I can't seem to separate out the transference  
part of a relationship from say, my memory of the last time we met, or  
the first time we met, or how because you are a Dr I generalise an  
aspect of my relating to you to all the other Drs I know.

Can others help me here?

Mostly I try and use role theory and the idea of the reciprocating  
nature of the way we are with one another.

Cheers while I get back to the other task

Peter in Brisbane


On 12/07/2009, at 5:58 AM, Edward Schreiber wrote:

> It seems to me that the whole is larger than its parts, although  
> Zerka has written that psychodrama/sociodrama fall under an umbrella  
> of sociometry.  I think also that the whole method has to include  
> this thing called sociatry, the fourth element to the triadic  
> system.   Thank you Adam and Ann.
>
> Ed
>
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Ann Hale wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Ann Hale
>> To: Adam Blatner
>> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: Sociometry Training
>>
>> Having a special award may seem like a neat thing to do, but it is  
>> another way to split sociometry off from the action methods, as iff  
>> it exists apart from the integrative whole as envisioned by  
>> Moreno.  Of course you can separate out "techniques" for a  
>> structured learning situation, but it is hard to leave out the  
>> applied and action part.
>>
>> Every traumatic event is a sociometric one.  Every warm-up is a  
>> sociometric one.  Every psychodrama, role play, sociodrama,  
>> bibliodrama, soul drama, etc. has a foundation in the the nature of  
>> the interpersonal connections which support the risks taken, the  
>> willing acceptance of roles, and sharing from the heart.   
>> Psychodrama is full-circle sociometry.
>>
>> Let's just keep on, keeping on the soul train of the whole  
>> shebang.  Ann Hale
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Adam Blatner
>> To: ABE Psychodrama ; GroupTalk
>> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: Sociometry Training
>>
>> So what about having an ASGPP award for people who make substantial  
>> contributions to advancing sociometry?   I have proposed this  
>> recently, and of course folks will need to think about it. But it  
>> does seem as if sociometry continues to be given more weight in the  
>> last twenty years. Warmly, Adam
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: ABE Psychodrama
>> To: GroupTalk
>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 3:32 PM
>> Subject: Sociometry Training
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> As usual Rebecca and Ann have been most articulate on the subject  
>> of sociometry.  I would agree that sociometry is best taught in  
>> training groups and I weave in the Sociometric Healing Circle as a  
>> way to explore how sociometry impacts every relationship that we  
>> create.   I also teach the unorthodox and that is intrapersonal and  
>> transpersonal sociometry.  I believe that the same sociometric  
>> patterns that we create with others we also create within ourselves  
>> (part of our self, parts of our physical body, etc) and with  
>> transpersonal figures.  It take a long time, maybe a few lifetimes,  
>> to really come to accept and be compassionate to all.  We can  
>> reject something/someone without anger, resentment, hurt and  
>> judgment.  At least I believe that is theoretically possible . I am  
>> still working on this myself.
>>
>> Dale Richard Buchanan
>>
>>
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