Marcia Karp is truly one of the foremost pioneers
of
psychodrama---s
ee her
photo among
historical figures, taken around 1971). She was
Honorary President
of the British Psychodrama Association for 11 years.
She was on the
Board of the International Association of Group
Psychotherapists for 6
years. She is a Fellow of the American Association of
Group
Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. She has a Directorship
Certificate from
the Beacon Academy, Beacon New
York,Trainers, J.L.and Zerka
Moreno. Her Trainer, Educator and Practitioner Status
was certified by
the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama,
Sociometry and Group
Psychotherapy. She is a founding member of the
Federation Of
European and Mediterranean Psychodrama Training
Organizations
(FEPTO), and is the recipient of the 2004
J. L. Moreno
Lifetime
Achievemant Award of the ASGPP and Recipient of
the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the BPA. She has Co-edited
"Psychodrama:Inspiration and Technique,"
P. Holmes and
M.Karp, Routledge, London/New York, 1992, published
in Portugese,
Hebrew, Spanish, and other languages;
"Psychodrama Since Moreno",
co-edited by P.Holmes, M.Karp and M.Watson, Routledge,
London/New York,
1994 and "The Handbook of Psychodrama", co-edited
by M. Karp,
P.Holmes and K.Tauvon, Routledge/Taylor Francis
Group, London/New
York, 1998 recently published in Greek, Russian, in
translation
currently in Japanese, and other languages.
Marcia has written a
chapter:Psychodrama of Rape and Torture: A
Sixteen -Year Follow-up
Case Study, in "Psychodrama with Trauma Survivors-
Acting Out Your
Pain", Edited by P. Kellermann And K. Hudgins,
Jessica
Kingley Publisher, London/Philadelphia, 2000. She
wrote,
"Introduction to Psychodrama" published in the IAGP
Forum Publication,
The British Counselling Journal, The British Social
Work Journal, and a
further version in "The Handbook of Psychodrama",
Karp,Holmes, co-ed.
Routledge, LondonN.Y., 1998, pp.3-13. She has
contributed, "Discussion
on Directing between Anne Anceline Schutzenberger and
Marcia Karp, in
"Psychodrama Training- European Review," edited by P.
Fontaine, FEPTO
Publications, 1989 Leuven, Belgium. Currently, she
works for the
National Health Service in London with Personality
Disorder and
Borderline. She has a private practice and travels the
world training
people in psychodrama. She is involved
with ongoing training
programmes in Moscow, Kiev, Geneva, Tokyo, Ossaka,
Athens and Spain.
Her email is
MKarp11444@aol.com,
Tel: +44 208 560
1460
