sociatry

[Edward Schreiber]

Nice to find ourselves on the same page!
Thank you Adam.
E
On May 31, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:

> Dear Ed, the last line of your response, about taking these methods  
> beyond the clinic, has also been a major effort of mine for over 20  
> years: In 1985 I wrote a monograph about using these techniques in  
> everyday life---sort of summarized in Gershoni's 2003 anthology---  
> and have been active in wanting to see Moreno's ideas utilized in  
> the many types of applied theatre (have you read my anthology about  
> that yet, 2007?  www.interactiveimprov.com/   ) in education, and  
> other institutions.  So there has now accumulated a fair amount of  
> cultural conserve about the "some how, some way," and these in turn  
> offer ready opportunities for amplification and development.
>
>            Warmly, Adam
>
>
>         So the "----- Original Message -----
> From: Edward Schreiber
> To: Adam Blatner ; grouptalk Listserv
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Commencement Speech
>
> Hi Adam,
> Thank you for the thoughtful response to Paul Hawkin's speech.  I  
> liked this paragraph (yours) very much:
>
>>
>>          So we don't need to begin "de novo," as if nothing  
>> previously has been thought about the present situation. In fact,  
>> many good minds have given it much thought, many tools are  
>> available---such as Moreno's---to use. And yet they will need to  
>> be used, modified, revisions or refinements invented, occasionally  
>> replaced---for use by and for oneself and perhaps for others, too.  
>> This is the creative challenge.
>
>
> I see psychodrama, sociometry, sociodrama as tools that can be  
> used, modified, revisions or refinements invented, etc.  I am a  
> theorist though, in that I pretty much agree with everything Moreno  
> created.  The refinement is what I am thinking mostly about,  
> particularly taking the tools, instruments, method, philosophy out  
> of the clinic into the world, some way, some how, more fully.  I'm  
> compelled in this way, it is my creative energy alive.
> Thanks Adam!
>
> Ed
>

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