Fwd: Re: archives at st elizabeths

Mon May 18 17:27:12 CDT 2009

>>> ABE Psychodrama <abepsychodrama at yahoo.com> 19.05.2009 00:13 >>>

Michael,

Absolutely pass this information on to anyone you want. thanks for your concerns, and good luck on this project. Dale

Dale Richard Buchanan, Ph.D., T.E.P.
Executive Director, American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
202-483-0514
abepsychodrama at yahoo.com 
www.psychodramacertification.org 

--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Michael Wieser <Michael.Wieser at uni-klu.ac.at> wrote:

From: Michael Wieser <Michael.Wieser at uni-klu.ac.at>
Subject: Re: archives at st elizabeths
To: "ABE Psychodrama" <abepsychodrama at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 6:07 PM

Dear Dale,
thank you for the answer. Jonathan seems to be in contact with the government. Of course Zerka, Adam Bl., ASGPP archive, Adam Barcroft, or ED for the Zerka Moreno Foundation should be involved. I am glad that most of the research got published. If you accept to attach your email I would write to the people mentioned above.
Warmly
Michael
PS: I was at the ASGPP conference in Brooklyn (2006?) and saw you there but unfortunately we did not speak with each other.

>>> ABE Psychodrama <abepsychodrama at yahoo.com> 18.05.2009 23:22 >>>

Hi Michael, 

Unfortuately the archives at St. Elizabeths are lost. The building we were once located in has been closed for over ten years. There was much water damage, mold etc in the building the last time I was there. Now that building and all in that area are under the Homeland Security Administration. No one can enter. No one can search around in an old abandoned building and no one can take materials away. Given that the remaining achives are property of the federal goverment it would probably take an act of congress to get in. I had communicated this to Adam earlier. There were a little over 200 research projects stored in three file cabinets. Most of the better ones have already been published. Peace, Dale

Dale Richard Buchanan, Ph.D., T.E.P.
Executive Director, American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
202-483-0514
abepsychodrama at yahoo.com 
www.psychodramacertification.org 

--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Michael Wieser <Michael.Wieser at uni-klu.ac.at> wrote:

From: Michael Wieser <Michael.Wieser at uni-klu.ac.at>
Subject: Re: archives at st elizabeths
To: list at grouptalkweb.org, ablatner at verizon.net 
Cc: abepsychodrama at yahoo.com 
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 4:56 PM

Dear Adam an Dale,
we are still negotiating for the Moreno house in Austria but I think the St Elizabeths Archive would be very important for international research projects. It should not get lost. If I can help to take it over I will do. Do you have a description of the content and how many cubic meter or equivalent?
Warmly
Michael
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>>> "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net> 18.05.2009 20:54 >>>
Repeat of email 4/10 and then I give up... (I received no feedback from last probe) Hello 
psychodrama colleagues,
There was a good library, many papers , books, stuff at St Elizabeths Hospital, where 
psychodrama training was conducted by Jim Enneis, Dale Buchanan and others from the 1950s 
through 2004
With the new Obama administration, might there be anyone who can approach anyone?
We need those materials back in circulation.
Warmly, Adam

> Dale Buchanan wrote <abepsychodrama at yahoo.com> December 10, 2008
>
> Sadly, psychodrama is dead at St Elizabeths. The last psychodramatist, Shelley
> Alexander, TEP, left in 2004. I retired in 1998.
>> All the library materials and psychodrama research papers (over 200 hundred of
>> them) were stored in the basement of Hitchcock Hall (the home of psychodrama for over
>> half a century). The U.S. Government took over the portion of the old part of the
>> campus (where Hitchcock Hall is located) a few years after I retired. The property is
>> now under control of Homeland Security. I know we can't get in, nor can anyone from 
>> St.
>> Elizabeths. Chalk this up to another causality on the War on Terror!
>> Happy Holidays! Dale> Dale Richard Buchanan, 

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