The important research continues

[Peter Howie]

Hi all,

Here is a very interesting piece from Scientific American.

I am pretty sure that this research relates strongly to the work we do  
in psychodrama groups. The work we do is at the opposite end of  
complexity to what is being demonstrated in this research but we may  
nevertheless meet in the middle at some distant future time. The  
difficulty with our methods are that they are not easy to do  
quantitative experiments with because the huge number of confounding  
variables that should be accounted for. Thus a lot of outcomes  
measures get used - such as "does it work?" "What does a successful  
outcome look like and how is it measured" "Is it better than nothing"  
or "Is it better than this or that therapy or approach". It requires  
real ingenuity and creativity to develop research proposals that don't  
work at either end of this complexity spectrum and cast light onto our  
methods and perhaps extend the theories or develop new theories on the  
matter.
Cheers for now

Peter

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-erase-fear-in-humans&sc=CAT_MB_20100324





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