Psychodrama and Sociometry
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Please note that the instructor, here, is aware that WIKI enjoys encyclopedic description. What looks like a simple course syllabus, below, isn't. How? If you click the Pre-Course website URLs, and the course websites therein is the encyclopedic information. Try it, you'll like it!
Also, if you are not familiar with psychodrama, please know the course begins with the biggest current issue in psychodrama today: The Nolte Issue.
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But first...............
- What is Psychodrama? :::
"A psychotherapeutic technique in which people are assigned roles to be played spontaneously within a dramatic context devised by a therapist in order to understand the behavior of people with whom they have difficult interactions.
A dramatization in which this technique is employed.
An event, social interaction, or narrative that manifests psychological forces or problems: “In [Pierre, Melville] abruptly reinvents himself as a domestic novelist, proposing to write a psychodrama of family intimacy” (Richard H. Brodhead)."
http://www.answers.com/topic/psychodrama
The Nolte Issue
, An Opinion
"For too long psychodrama has been confined by and to the mental health professions which have pushed it into obscurity, created fear of it, marginalized it and reduced it to a series of techniques."
John Nolte PhD TEP, Credit: ASGPP 65th Annual Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy Conference, New York, NY April 26-30, 2007
reference: http://www.asgpp.org/html/conference.html
credit: John Nolte
Please note: this course does not take sides!
Pre-Course support sites in other other theories, methods and techniques:
http://historysystems.bravehost.com
http://nondefensive.bravehost.com
Main Course website in Psychodrama ...............
Course webstites in other other theories, methods and techniques:
Note: As the course grows, the list (below) will grow. Keep posted.
http://aristotele.bravehost.com/
http://recollection.bravehost.com/
http://depersonalization.bravehost.com/
Issue:
http://dissociation.bravehost.com
and
"Dissociation is a state of acute mental decompensation in which certain thoughts, emotions, sensations, and/or memories are compartmentalized because they are too overwhelming for the conscious mind to integrate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_%28psychology%29#See_also
Class Assignment: Discuss Dissociation. Create at least one researchable question suitable for psychodrama and/or sociometry. Lindblom
The Course Lab (n development):
BETA Test Lab:
Course texts:
Students are encouraged to obtain the following excellent text! Lindblom
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHODRAMA Adam Blatner, M.D., T.E.P.
http://www.blatner.com/adam/books.html
AND
"The Quintessential Zerka" Writings by Zerka Toeman Moreno on Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy Edited by Toni Horvatin, Edward Schreiber
AND
http://hvpi.net/howpdworks.htm
General Course Description:
1.) Theory Learning Goals:
a.) Understanding theoretical perspectives in Psychodrama compared and contrasted with cognitive science systems thinking with a general systems theory orientation approach and leading into further theorietical orientations.
The course, thereby, is in exploration of complex systems thinking in Cognitive Science as compared and contrasted to the General Systems Theory and Psychodrama.
b.) Assessment and appraisal of scholarly research and writing in general, specific, relative and universal areas of psychology using Psychodrama as an extended description for cognition.
2.) Pragmatic Learning Goals:
a.) General application of psychological theory in Psychodrama, cognitive science and General systems theory.
b.) Specific cases are welcome. Reflection on application of theory and design methodology in theoretical research and action research including practical investigation of ideas, norms, and change strategies in Psychodrama and Cognitive Science and in General systems theory.
A number of course support websites are offered (below). The support websites is where the information of the course is stored.
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