Transference
Adam Blatner
ablatner at verizon.net
Sun Jul 12 21:37:36 CDT 2009
Please check out www.pdbib.org Jim Sacks' psychodrama bibliography. Many articles on
transference. Use search engine and key word. Please pass this message about this most
valuable resource along to everyone in your network. Warmly, Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenny Wilson" <jenny at blennerhassett.gen.nz>
To: "Peter Howie" <peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au>
Cc: "Group talk Listserv" <list at grouptalkweb.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 2:09 AM
Subject: Transference
> Hi Peter
> If you or others do know of good articles on transference and
> psychodrama can you forward me the references please. It is a really
> interesting area and I would like to learn more.
>
> Kind regards
> Jenny
>
> Peter Howie wrote:
>> 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 <mailto:annehale at swva.net>
>>>> *To:* Adam Blatner <mailto:adam at blatner.com>
>>>> *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 <mailto:ablatner at verizon.net>
>>>> *To:* ABE Psychodrama <mailto:abepsychodrama at yahoo.com> ;
>>>> GroupTalk <mailto:list at grouptalkweb.org>
>>>> *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 <mailto:abepsychodrama at yahoo.com>
>>>> *To:* GroupTalk <mailto:list at grouptalkweb.org>
>>>> *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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